he National Department of Health (NDOH) presents this Malaria Elimination Strategic Plan 2019-2023 for the Republic of South Africa. The strategy comes at an important time as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state have recently renewed the commitment to eliminate malaria in Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa by 2020 and in the whole SADC region by 2030, with the target of zero local malaria cases and deaths. South Africa has made steady progress towards this elimination goal through the implementation of evidence-based malaria policies aligned to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Technical Strategy.