Two-thirds of South Africa’s R74.5 billion annual gross gambling revenue is being siphoned by illegal offshore online operators based in jurisdictions such as Curaçao, Malta, Gibraltar and the Philippines. This is according to the South African Bookmakers Association (SABA), which says more than R50 billion in gross gambling revenue is diverted offshore each year, with an estimated 16 million South Africans having engaged with illegal platforms in the past year.

Crypto platforms across Africa are rapidly improving identity verification performance as the industry moves toward stricter regulation and stronger fraud prevention. These findings are based on Sumsub , a leading full-cycle verification platform that enables scalable compliance, which today released its fourth annual  State of the Crypto Industry report *. The new research reveals how crypto companies are balancing fraud prevention, regulatory pressure, and user experience as they scale in...

The beauty world was buzzing last week after News24 broke a story about a young woman who was left with terribly botched and injured lips after getting lip filler. The news outlet reports that the injector who performed the treatment is a local influencer and self-proclaimed “doctor”. The patient knew that something was wrong post-treatment when her lips started bruising and swelling badly, progressively getting worse as the day went on. She visited a doctor, only to learn that the blood flow...