google.co.za
All blocked
Every URL under google.co.za that we can reach a verdict on — 4 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://google.co.za, is blocked. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright, poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 579 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-06, the most recent on 2026-10-23.
The site itself
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Every URL under google.co.za that we can reach a verdict on — 4 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://google.co.za, is blocked. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright, poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 579 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-06, the most recent on 2026-10-23.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks google.co.za. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
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Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.