World Cup hosts South Africa will hold training camps in Brazil and Germany to prepare for the 2010 tournament.
The South African Football Association (Safa) says there will be four training camps for Bafana Bafana.
The side will head to Brazil in March and Germany in April.
The plans were made before the re-appointment of Carlos Alberto Parreira as coach but he will have some input, national team general manager Sipho Nkumane said.
South Africa’s league will shut down in January for the first training camp, expected to be at altitude somewhere in the country.
The season is also finishing early to allow Parreira time to work with the home-based players, who form about half of the expected squad for the 2010 finals.
South Africa will train in Brazil for four weeks from 6 March and then go to Germany for a camp from April 13-28.
The team will be based in Herzogenaurach in Germany but the Brazilian venue has yet to be fixed.
A final training camp will start on 6 May before the World Cup kicks off on 11 June, Safa added.
The team have four international warm-up games fixed over the next six months with matches at home against Japan on 14 November and Jamaica three days later.
They will then travel to play Chile on 3 March and Jamaica on 10 April.
Nkumane said negotiations were ongoing with North and South Korea for possible friendly internationals in January and with Argentina, Costa Rica and Paraguay for games in March.