Distributional data are provided for 35 species of Brentidae from South Africa and the neighbouring countries Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique. Cerobates (Cerobates) zulu spec. nov. is described from South Africa. The following new country records are provided: Acramorphocephalus stabilis Kleine for Zimbabwe; Amorphocephala calcarata Damoiseau for South Africa; Micramorphocephalus frater Kleine for Botswana and Zimbabwe; Pericordus freyi Damoiseau for Swaziland and Namibia; Symmorphocerus monticola Schoenherr for Botswana and Zimbabwe; Adidactus striolatus (Fairmaire) for South Africa; Basenius laticornis Kolbe for South Africa; Protoproctus minor (K.E. Schedl) for South Africa; Pseudousambius silvanus (Kolbe) for Zimbabwe; Schizoadidactus napaeus (Kolbe) for South Africa; Neoceocephalus freyi De Muizon for Namibia and Zimbabwe; Neoceocephalus thoracicus Damoiseau for Zimbabwe; Bolbocranius anaticeps (Kolbe) for Namibia; Bolbocranius csikii (Bolkay) for South Africa and Mozambique; Bolbocranius distortus (Westwood) for Zimbabwe; Microtrachelizus aethiopicus Calabresi for South Africa; Gynandrorhynchus vittipennis (Fähraeus) for Zimbabwe; Paryphobrenthus latirostris (Gerstäcker) for Swaziland, Botswana and Zimbabwe; and Rhinopteryx werneri Orbach, Bartolozzi & Sforzi for Zimbabwe. Keywords: Botswana, Brentidae, Cerobates, Checklist, Coleoptera, First records, Mozambique, Namibia, New species, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe.