A total of 4349 Toyota Corollas will be recalled in South Africa after detection of a defect that could see airbags fail to deploy in a crash. The cars were built between April 2002 and 2003.
Toyota South Africa spokesman Mary Willemse said dealers would contact owners of these cars.
"These vehicles will be traced through their VIN numbers and the part will be replaced within one to two hours," Willemse said.
The global recall affects 2.27million vehicles.
Toyota said the latest call-back involved 20 models, including the Corolla, Yaris and Noah, and covered about 1.62million cars overseas and 650000 in Japan.
Some of the affected overseas cars were included in a recall last year, but had not had their airbag inflators replaced, Toyota said.
A company spokesman in Tokyo said it had received a complaint from a Japanese customer who said his passenger seat was burned from the defect. No injuries or accidents were reported, he added.
In April, Toyota recalled 6.39million vehicles globally over a string of problems, and another 520000 last month, mostly in North America, over several issues including cable corrosion that could lead spare tyres to fall off.
In February, it recalled 1.9million units of Prius hybrid cars after recalling millions of other models in recent years over a possible fire risk and other safety issues.
Despite logging record sales and bumper profits, Toyota has been fighting to protect its reputation as US rival GM scrambles to contain a deadly ignition-linked scandal.
In March, Toyota agreed to pay $1.2-billion to settle US criminal charges that it lied to regulators and the public as it tried to cover up deadly accelerator defects, which caused vehicles to speed out of control and fail to brake.
G M has been accused of hiding a decade-long ignition and airbag problem linked to 13 deaths. It has budgeted $1.7-billion to cover some of the costs of recalling 2.6million cars .
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