Gambling regulation
Gambling in the country:
Provincial regulation
Local License:
-
Top brands in the country
Top 20 iGaming Brands (October 2024):
(search volume in parentheses)
Top payment systems
In 2024, popular payment methods include:
iGaming news in the country
Nothing found
Affiliates receiving traffic
State/Region
iGambling
iBetting
Northern Cape
ban🚫
Northern Cape (NCGB)
North West
ban🚫
North West (NWGB)
Limpopo
ban🚫
Limpopo (LGB)
Free State
ban🚫
Free State (FSGTA)
Eastern Cape
ban🚫
Eastern Cape (ECGBB)
KwaZulu-Natal
ban🚫
KwaZulu-Natal (KZNGB)
Mpumalanga
ban🚫
Mpumalanga (MER)
Gauteng
ban🚫
Gauteng (GGB)
Western Cape
ban🚫
Western Cape (WCGRB)
More about gambling regulation
Recently, South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) announced the implementation of a standard that requires organizations involved in cryptocurrency transactions to share details of all transactions to combat money laundering in the country.
It is known that almost 6 million South Africans own crypto-assets. The South African authorities intend to introduce the initiative in 2025.
However, the South African Bookmakers Association (SABA) recently reported that 38% players use licensed platforms. The remaining 62% play on more than 2,000 illegal sites.
It should be reminded that only online betting is allowed in South Africa. Since 2008, the authorities have been trying to legalize online casinos, but so far the bill approved by the president has not entered into force.
Regulation of online casinos in South Africa remains weak. There is little information on how illegal gambling sites are controlled and whether a system of penalties is in place in practice.
About blocking and liability
Medium
Legislation:
Ambiguous/local bans are possible
The activity of the authorities:
Medium
Risk of harassment of non-residents:
Low/Medium
The risk in entering the country:
Low/Medium
Risk of extradition to the country:
Low
Precedents (against non-residents):
No data
Comment on the level of risk:
South Africa: Many local specifics; local vetting is required before active work. Risk of extradition to the country is low, requests are rare.
Blask.com data - index and top brands
Indicates the aggregate level of engagement and interest in all brands in a country. This indicator serves as a barometer for the iGaming industry and combines various indicators to give an overview of trends and changes in the market.
*BAP (Brand's Accumulated Power) - accumulated brand power, reflects the brand's share of consumer interest in the online gambling market. The relative presence of a brand in a country. The BAP graph is presented below:
Data for the section is provided by the analytical service Blask.com.. At the moment, the service's database contains information on more than 80+ countries and more than 2500 brands.
Gambling in the country
South Africa is the leader of the African continent in terms of both the number of players and the volume of gambling business. South Africans make more than half of the bets in the whole continent.
Player ratio on the floor:
Average age of players:
According to the South African government, more than 50% South African adults bet on sports. The average age of punters under 28.
Lotteries are very popular - the 47% population plays in them. The ratio of men and women playing the lottery is 50/50, the main age audience is between 35 and 44 years old.
Online slots preferred 25% South African players, most often middle-aged (22% women, 28% men):
About 49% South Africans bet on sports, of which:
According to recent studies, the number of active bettors in South Africa is estimated at 60 million players aged 18 to 40. The most betting age group is between 24 and 34 years old. 62% of all respondents in this age group bet on sports from time to time.
| Lic | AVG | Rank | MS | Brand | Rank/MS | iGaming | Rank/MS | Sportsbook | Brand | iGaming / Sportsbook |
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What information is provided in the table?
Here is the statistics on search queries of the South African brand separately by different countries and separately by iGaming and Sportsbook clusters (for convenience the columns are visually highlighted: red - for iGaming information, blue - for Sportsbook information). In case a brand consists of a word or phrase in widespread use - Brand frequency is calculated summarily from the frequencies of queries from iGaming + Sportsbook clusters.
Lic - this column indicates the icon of local licence of the brand in the country. Licence data is updated manually, without automatic aggregation, so there may be discrepancies with reality.
AVG (Average Frequency) - in this table, this is the average frequency of a branded query over the year (yellow graph).
Rank - shows the brand's place (by frequency of brand query or query cluster) in the country compared to other brands found in the country.
MS (Market Share) - market share calculated by brand frequency (or query cluster frequency) compared to other brands across the country.
If a brand frequency is found in a country that was not previously found in that country, this country is marked as "NEW..." (i.e. it is labelled as a recommendation to study the brand+country bundle as a possible new promotion market). (i.e. it is labelled as a recommendation to study the brand+country combination as a possible new promotion market).
Data is updated at least once a month. Collected from Google search engine.
Can this data be trusted?
All frequency data for analysis is collected automatically via API directly from the Google search engine. To form queries, combinations of queries like (brand + word/phrase) are used. It should be taken into account that although the data is taken from the Google search engine, but in some places it may contain contradictory information, both due to anomalies in the analytics on the Google side and human errors in the formation of brand queries. We review the received and generated data on the site and, if anomalies are detected, we make adjustments, which in the subsequent update collects data more accurately.
The data from the website should not be relied upon as an accurate measurement. This data is collected and generated on the platform in order to understand the possible demand for brands in different countries, as well as to understand the gambling market and the distribution of "forces" in it.
How does the data collection process take place?
There are several stages of data collection:
1. brand query. The system takes the name of the brand and collects the frequency of the brand query across the countries of the world available on Google. It is not uncommon for a branded query to be a commonly used word or phrase (e.g. "Raspberry" or "Alpha" or "Las Vegas"), then the frequency of the query will have completely inaccurate data that is not relevant to the company in question. In this case, "brand + casino" or "brand + bet" is added to the branded query, or the sum of frequencies from iGaming + Sportsbook clusters is taken into account instead of the branded frequency. This is done in order to exclude complete zeroing of brand frequency, and to collect instead narrower queries, but allowing to keep the brand statistics in the general picture of brands in the world and in each country separately.
2. iGaming and Sportsbook clusters - are collected from combinations of queries like "brand + casino" (+casino, +cassino, etc.) and "brand + bet" (+betting, +paris sportifs, +apuestas, etc.). That is, for each country the phrase "brand + casino" is formed, as well as phrases with the local use of the word "casino" in the native language. The same for the Sportsbook cluster, queries with "sports betting" are used, both widely used and localised in each country. The overall graph (red and blue) shows the sum of frequencies from all countries for each cluster, as well as their dynamics. The table by country shows local data formed from the sum of frequencies of cluster queries just for the country in question. If a brand already has the words "casino" or "bet" in its name, for example, "Coral casino", "Premier bet" - then when forming phrases for iGaming and Sportsbook clusters the words "casino" and "bet" added through a space are automatically removed and are not used in the formed phrases. This allows to more accurately form the key queries of users used in the search.
3. Clusters Registration, Promocode, Bonus, App - are formed similarly to the previous clusters, from combinations of commonly used queries in each country separately.
What does the "lock" icon mean?
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Gambling regulation
Gambling in the country:
Provincial regulation
Local License:
-
About the population of the country
Official Language:
English, Afrikaans
Believers:
91 %
Second Religion:
About the internet in the country
Mobile Internet:
86.3 %
Landline Internet:
13 %
Cf. internet speed:
33.6 Mbps
The country's domain zone:
.ZA
Population growth:
Internet users:
Urbanization:
Urbanization - 68.8%
Languages in the country:
Age structure:
Middle age:
Literacy:
Real GDP:
Real GDP growth:
GDP per capita:
Basic information about the country
Name of country:
SOUTH AFRICA
Code (2-digit):
ZA
Continent:
Africa
Capital:
Pretoria
Area of the country:
1,219,912 square kilometers.
Phone Code:
27
Currency (currency code):
Rand (ZAR).
Geographical features of the country
Province (10): Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Western Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, West Coast, Free State.
The modern territory of the country was partially or fully occupied by the following states: British Empire (now Great Britain), Transvaal, Orange Free State.
South Africa has access to lakes: Sibhai.
There are rivers running through the area: Orange, Limpopo, Vaal, Komati.
South Africa owns the islands: Marion Island, Prince Edward.
Mountains within the country: Maheka, Mafadi, Njesuti, Sekoko, Champagne Castle, Lithobolong, Trojan Wall, Cantuba, Pampiring, Botolong, Popple, Giant's Castle, Monk's Cloak, Kwa-Duma, Ben-Makdui, Kompassberg, Seveksport Peak, Torberg, Matrosberg, Wood Peak and others.
There are deserts on the territory of the country: Kalahari, Karru.
Famous caves in the country: Keos Cave.
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