Play Safe

Gambling should cost you an amount you chose in advance and nothing more. If it has started costing more than that, free help is available right now.

Get help

You do not need to have decided anything before you call. Talking it through is the whole point.

Before you use any casino listed here

Most of the operators on this site are licensed outside South Africa. No South African gambling board regulates them. In practice that means:

• Self-exclusion may not follow you. If you have excluded yourself through a South African licensed operator or the national register, an offshore casino can still open an account for you. If you have self-excluded, please close this site.
• No local complaints route. If a withdrawal is held back, you depend on the operator's own process and its foreign licensing body.
• Limit tools vary. They exist at reputable sites, but they are not required to meet a South African standard.

Limits that actually work

• Set a deposit limit before your first deposit. Lowering a limit is usually immediate; raising it takes time, which protects you on a bad night.
• Pay with a voucher such as 1Voucher or OTT if you want a hard ceiling. When it is spent, it is spent.
• Decide the loss you can live with and treat it as the price of the entertainment.
• Never chase losses. Bigger stakes to win it back is how a bad night becomes a bad month.
• Keep gambling money separate from rent, school fees and debt repayments, and never borrow to play.

Signs it is no longer fun

Spending more or for longer than you planned. Hiding it from people close to you. Borrowing money to gamble, or gambling to pay back what you owe. Feeling restless or irritable when you cannot play. Any one of these is a good reason to call the number above.

Under 18

Gambling is for adults only. Every operator listed verifies identity before paying out, and accounts opened by minors are closed with any winnings forfeited. If children use your devices, parental controls on the phone or router can block gambling sites.