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The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly [5] more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability [6] Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.
Bidorbuy.co.za became the largest online marketplace South Africa and Africa. [2] In 2010, it invested into PayFast, [3] a local online payment company, and 2014 into the e-commerce company uAfrica.com. [4] It merged with UAfrica, in August 2022 to form Bob Group. [5] In March 2023, UAfrica was rebranded as Bob Go and Bidorbuy as Bob Shop. [6]
According to the 2006 study the most popular forms of gambling in South Africa were the National Lottery (96.9% participation), slot machines (27.7% participation), scratchcards (22.7% participation), charity jackpot competitions (11.6% participation) and horse racing betting (11.5% participation). 8.3% of respondents said they have never gambled and a further 5.5% characterised themselves as ...
Simplified Catalogues. Stamps of the World. (An annual catalogue, first published in 1934, now in six volumes listing stamps from every country in the world.) and its regional subsets: Africa, 1st edition (2010) Asia Volume 1, 1st edition (2010) Commonwealth, 5th edition (2013) Western Europe, 2nd edition (2012) Regional Catalogues
In 2019, Stitch was founded in Cape Town, South Africa as Stitch Money. [5] In February 2021, Stitch raised $4 million in seed funding. The firm was initially focused on enabling businesses to access user financial accounts to view financial data. [6] [7] In April 2021, the company began piloting its first payments product – Pay-ins. [8]
The Standard Catalog of World Paper Money was a well-known catalogue of banknotes that was published by Krause Publications in three volumes. These catalogues are commonly known in the numismatic trade as the Pick catalogues, as the numbering system was originally compiled by Albert Pick, but are also referred to as "Krause" or "SCWPM". Since ...
The company launched as Virgin Money South Africa in 2006, as a partnership between Virgin Group (owners of the Virgin Money brand) and Absa, as an issuer of credit cards. [2] The 50-50 joint venture was worth R240 million at the time of launch. [3] By 2013 Virgin Money's customers had R1 billion in total credit. [4]
In terms of South African legal deposit legislation, each of the national libraries was a legal deposit library, entitled to receive from the publishers a gratis copy of every book, serial, newspaper, government publication or other printed item published in South Africa. In South Africa legal deposit, in some form or another, dates back to 1842.