Tempest car hire is a South African car rental company, with outlets across the country (including at the major airports - Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg). Its major competitors are Europcar, First Car Rental, Avis, Budget and Hertz.
You can make a Tempest Car Hire reservation via the internet or telephonically:
Website reservations |
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Telephonic reservations from inside South Africa |
0861-TEMPEST |
Telephonic reservations from outside South Africa |
+27-11-552-3900 |
Branch |
Phone |
Fax |
Cell |
Office Hours |
Manager |
* GAUTENG * |
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Braamfontein |
011 3337928 |
011 3337915 |
084 2341126 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Acting BM - Deon Engelbrecht |
Centurion |
012 6631368/9 |
012 6631387 |
084 2516738 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Clare Parmenter |
East Rand |
011 8970042 |
086 5322333 |
084 4060695 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Stefan Venter |
Johannesburg |
011 578 8300 |
011 3901345 |
084 2341127 |
Mon-Sun 00h01-23h59 |
Cindy Slabbert |
Lanseria |
011 6592741 |
0866485933 |
0842529048 |
Mon-Fri 06h00-22h00 |
Leanda van Wyk |
Midrand |
011 3159854 |
011 8053672 |
084 4055576 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Karmini Chitay |
Pretoria East |
012 4302724 |
012 4302200 |
084 2341121 |
Mon-Fri 07h00-18h00 |
Linda Dalasile |
Randburg |
011 7896143/8 |
086 6856296 |
084 2528795 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
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Sandton |
011 7843343 |
011 7843378 |
084 2528795 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Alfred Letsoalo |
Southgate (Mall) |
011 9421567 |
011 9421586 |
084 2842835 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Yusuf Milanzi |
* LIMPOPO * |
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Polokwane |
015 2880219 |
015 2880204 |
084 2341138 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Michiel Horn |
* MPUMALANGA * |
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Nelspruit |
013 7502765 |
086 5167260 |
084 2341137 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Sarah Phangisa |
* FREE STATE * |
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Bloemfontein |
051 4332146 |
051 4332167 |
084 2341134 |
Mon-Fri 06h00-19h30 |
Ewan Bester (Acting Manager) |
Kimberley |
053 8511516/7 |
053 8511528 |
084 2341136 |
Mon-Fri 06h30-19h00 |
Susan Smit |
* EASTERN CAPE * |
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East London |
043 7361320 |
043 7361394 |
084 2341124 |
Mon-Fri 06h30-20h00 |
Ludine Geswint |
Port Elizabeth |
041 5089650 |
041 5089698 |
084 2341130 |
Mon-Fri 06h00-22h00 |
Jackie Harris |
George |
044 8769250 |
044 8769094 |
084 2341125 |
Mon-Fri 07h30-20h00 |
Elton Nomdoe |
* NORTHERN CAPE * |
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Upington |
054 33785600 |
054 3378561 |
082 3033050 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 Sat-Sun 08h00-12h00 p/h Open |
Neville Visagie |
Upington |
054 3378560 |
054 3378561 |
082 3033050 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Neville Visagie |
* KWA-ZULU NATAL * |
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Durban |
032 4369800 |
032 4369898 |
084 234 1111 |
Mon-Fri 05h30-22h00 |
Peggy Seheshe |
Durban City |
031 3685231 |
031 3686466 |
084 234 1118 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Lloyd Koloti |
Umhlanga (TUMH) Shop 4, African Palms, Palm Boulevard, Umhlanga Rocks
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031 566 7052 |
031566 6762 |
074 7936501 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 Sat 08h00-13h00 Sun & p/h closed |
Romel Kalidass |
Pietermaritzburg |
033 3462551 |
033 3460386 |
084 2341131 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Prince Lerumo |
Richards Bay |
035 7860448 |
035 7899629 |
084 2341133 |
Mon-Fri 07h00-18h00 |
Bazil Pillay |
* WESTERN CAPE * |
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Belville |
021 9462493 |
021 9486375 |
072 5467101 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Denis Moses |
Cape Town |
021 9358650 |
021 9343853 |
084 2341120 |
Mon-Fri 05h00-23h59 |
Jonathan Johnson |
Cape Town City |
0214819860 |
021 4244190 |
084 2341117 |
Mon-Fri 07h00-18h00 |
Marliza Hayes |
Stellenbosch |
021 8872392 |
021 8871689 |
071 4069572 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Delano de Wit |
Tokai |
021 7125043 |
021 7155044 |
084 2648927 |
Mon-Fri 08h00-17h00 |
Reduwaan Lakay |
Tempest Car Hire is a member of SAVRALA, the South African Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.
Tempest Car Hire (Pty) Ltd
Tempest Car Hire Namibia (Pty) Ltd
The graph below provides an indication of the web traffic which Tempest Car Hire's website has been receiving:
Oct 2011 |
Tempest are now allowing customers to book with a debit card (or credit car/cheque card) at any of their branches country widel. Customers should ensure that their floor limit on their card is high enough for Tempest to take the liability amount for their rental. |
Sep 2011 |
Tempest change their logo. Here's the old one. |
26 May 2011 |
A car thief, who had been on the run since March 2008 for the theft of 18 vehicles, is arrested in Soweto. He is alleged to have stolen car vouchers from the company where he worked, used them to rent vehicles from Tempest, and then hired out the cars from his own vehicle hire company. |
June 2010 |
Tempest Car Hire & Kia brand 6 Kia Picantos with footballs to celebrate the Fifa World Cup taking place in South Africa, and offered customers who drove the branded vehicles a discounted price (no longer available).
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6 Oct 2009 |
Tempest Car Rental October 2009 newsletter. |
21 Jan 2009 |
Tempest Car Hire January 2009 newsletter. |
1 Oct 2008 |
Tempest Sixt announces that it has teamed up with PopEye Wrap-A-Rental Media (Pty) Ltd to place marketing paraphernalia into the Tempest Sixt fleet, and to brand some of the cars (initially 12). |
22 Apr 2008 |
Tempest start advertising through Trafficsynergy (this agreement only lasts a few months). |
Apr 2008 |
Tempest announces specials including R185 a day for a Toyota Corolla or R500 a day for a Group E Bus, airport transfers from R176 a trip and GPS units from R49 a day. |
Mar 2008 |
Tempest finally pay Penny Wilson of Johannesburg the R8450 they owe her (without adding interest, but throwing in a a return ticket with Mango Airlines and a free weekend's car hire). Penny had hired a Toyota Tazz from Tempest in June 2004, and it was stolen from outside her holiday accomodation in Cape Town. Penny coughed up the R8450 excess on the vehicle, however when police recovered the vehicle Tempest took over two years to repay her the excess. |
5 Mar 2008 |
Tempest announced their partnership with Dreamfields, providing "Dreambags" to students who love playing soccer. A DreamBag includes fifteen pairs of boots, five soccer balls, and fifteen sets of kit, including numbered shirts, shorts and socks. In other words, everything you need to start a new team, or to make one that’s up and running feel like they can take on the world. Dreamfields will be identifying 16 schools in the Gauteng area and (together with Mango Airlines) will be providing them with Dream bags. To get involved call the CEO of Dreamfields, John Perlman, on +27 (0) 11 712 7528 or email johnperlman@dreamfields.org.za. |
5 Mar 2008 |
Tempest announces a R189 per day car hire special, and also a competition to run to the end of April 2008. |
6 Febr 2008 |
Janita Edwards is appointed sales & marketing director for Tempest Sixt Car Hire. |
Oct 2001 |
Tempest wins the Sixt-Rent-A-Car franchise for Southern and Central Africa. |
1991 |
Tempest car hire is purchased by the Imperial Group. |
25 Jul 2008 |
Tempest Car Hire's July newsletter, offering car rentals from R158 a day. |
24 Jun 2008 |
Tempest Car Hire's June newsletter, in which they advertise car rentals from R149 per day on weekends. And Tempest team up with Mango & advertise Mango flights from R311. They also team up with Standard Bank, and advertise the Standard Bank Travel Wallet. |
18 May 2008 |
Tempest Sixt just sent out its May newsletter (partnership offers with Southern Sun, Mango and Standard Bank are contained in the newsletter). |
16 Apr 2008 |
Terrific Tempest Car Hire has offered the cheapest car rentals in every single car hire survey which has been run by SouthAfrica.to |
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