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It was an incredible year for customers at Carnival City Casino, Sun International’s East Rand-based land-based casino. The casino report a staggering record payout of nearly R3.5 BILLION in winnings to players last year!

It was an extremely lucky year for Carnival City Casino and Hotel players who came to enjoy the world class slots and table games at this Gauteng gambling hub.

Of the collective R3,478,337,986.50 won, the vast majority was won by slots fans.

March 1, 2023, Johannesburg, South Africa – This month South Africa’s Springbok Casino pays tribute to people that devote their lives to rescuing and rehabilitating animals – both big and small, wild and domestic. These include sanctuaries for owls, donkeys, rhinos and wild animals that have suffered in captivity as well as a veterinary hospital that treats only wild animals.

TEARS provides free animal sterilization and subsidized medical assistance in low-income communities across the southern Cape Peninsula. It provides basic animal healthcare and rescues homeless, unwanted and injured animals.

There are some gaming sites that are so ingrained on the list of Best South African online casinos, that we just assume that all players know how great they are. But with each passing year, more and more players enter the world of online gambling, and this may be a good time to remind them about the existence of these amazing sites.

Today, we’re going to focus on an online casino that has the name that is as South African as things get – Yebo Casino. If you’re new to online casinos, and you’re on the lookout for a casino which offers you an all-inclusive gaming experience, with fantastic games, easy deposit means, a safe platform and a very generous welcome bonus, look no further than Yebo Casino.

It’s considered the biggest street party in the world, attracting over two million people every day! But if you haven’t managed to jet off to the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro this year, how about trying your luck at the Casino.com Rio Carnival Festival – and putting yourself in line to win your share of R365,000 in Golden Chips!

Casino.com is inviting you to shine bright at this year’s Carnival in a promo involving the Spin A Win Wild game. The promotion will run from now until Saturday, February 25th, 2023, so samba your way down to Casino.com today!

Don’t miss out on ZAR Casino’s incredible blitz of draws that will take place over the next two months. Up for grabs are two luxury cars, 50 x extreme driving courses, real diamonds and lots and lots of cash! All you need to do is play at this fantastic South African-friendly online casino and you’ll be in the draw for one of these rewards.

If you’re curious about what you can win in over the next eight weeks, these are the draws and the prizes up for grabs:

The highest Powerball Plus jackpot of the year was won last week, after National Lottery operator, Ithuba announced that one lucky winner bagged the R60 million jackpot.

The Powerball Plus lottery was played via the FNB banking app, proving once again how easy it is to win a life-changing amount by just a few clicks.

The Chief Executive Officer of Ithuba, Charmaine Mabuza said about the latest R60,630,153.30 win: “The jackpot rolled over 23 times until it was finally won on February 7th on draw number 1378.”

Popular South African-friendly online casinos are spreading the love in the ultimate week of romance. Valentines Day traditionally brings with it some of the best bonuses and promotions, and Casino.com has certainly upped the ante with its Valentines Mystery Parcel offer. Take a look at how you can get your hands on up to 1,000 free spins!

You’re being invited to get in the mood this romantic season with a mystery parcel to undress up to 1,000 free spins. The official Day of Love has never been sweeter with this offer that’s easy to enter.

In a pre-Series B round, the South African gaming startup company, Carry1st, managed to secure hundreds of millions of rands in funds. The group said that it will use the money to develop, license and launch new titles and expand its brand.

The company closed on $27 million (close to R500 million). The money will also be used to expand its Pay1st brand.

They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but we reckon that anyone would love to get their hands on one of the beauties being given away by ZAR Casino this month!

There are four 4-carat diamonds up for grabs in the Romancing the Reels promo. If you’re looking for an online casino offer with a ‘Wow’ factor, with literally dazzling prizes in its prize pool – this is the one!

With the weekend nearly upon us, we’re bringing you a couple of great promotions running at Europa Casino. These offers are the perfect promos to end off the week with, and provide you with extra chances of winning.

The first offer is the Double Up Fridays for top notch slot play and the second is the Friday Big Quiz for spectacular live game show fun. It goes without saying that these two are just a sampling of the fantastic range of special offers found on the Europa Casino promo page.

Here’s a new online casino promotion that is decidedly out of this world. Online promos aren’t alien to most of us, but when we reach for the stars, we can receive some great prizes right into our accounts. Are those enough alien-themed words and phrases to give you a hint about what the latest igaming promotion is all about? So, here’s the real deal: Thunderbolt Casino is offering players free spins on the brand-new Alien Wins slot throughout the month of February!

The new Alien Wins slot landed in the games lobby of online casinos such as Thunderbolt Casino and Springbok Casino at the start of this month.

Playtech Plc, the London-listed gambling software developer which provides its top-notch games to many South African online casinos, announced that it expects to achieve excellent financial results for 2022 fiscal year.

In a trading update, Playtech said that it expects to achieve solid numbers, and that its 2022 revenue should hit €400 million (R2 billion). According to Playtech, its business continues to perform strongly since the release of its previous interim results in September 2022. Adjusted EBITDA for 2022 is expected to increase by 26%.

February 1, 2023, Johannesburg, South Africa (Press Release) – February is the month of love – and South Africa’s Springbok Casino loves whales! This month they’ve published a collection of trailers from movies starring whales that includes Free Willy, Finding Dory and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

The list of whale-themed movies begins with Free Willy (1993), a feel-good classic where a 12-year-old orphan forms a close bond with a young captive killer whale and helps him escape. Blackfish (2013) is a documentary about whales in captivity, and how subjecting them to a tiny confined space for human entertainment is horrendously cruel and unusual punishment.

Sun International’s flagship South African land-casino, Sun City hosted celebrations in honor of the Chinese Year of the Rabbit recently.

The hotel and casino resort was decked out in its all its red and gold finery as it welcomed revelers in a three day event, from January 20 – 22nd. The event was held in association with the SA-Chinese Community Police Cooperation Center and Shunde Dining Entertainment Group. It was also an excellent opportunity to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between South Africa and China.

January 27, 2022, Johannesburg, South Africa (Press Release) Online gambling in South Africa has seen significant growth in recent years, with more and more people turning to the internet to place bets and play casino games. This trend is driven by a number of factors, including the convenience and accessibility of online gambling, as well as the increased availability of mobile devices and high-speed internet.

Unlike traditional brick-and-mortar casinos, online gambling sites can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, making it easy for players to place bets and play games whenever they want. This is especially appealing to people who live in rural or remote areas, where access to traditional casinos is limited.

It’s another week and that means that Springbok Casino has come out with yet another announcement regarding a new slot due to land in its games lobby.

This time around, South Africa’s favorite online gaming site has announced that Giant Fortunes will launch on February 15th. The new 5 reel, 25 pay line game will be available via download, instant play and mobile. In other words, there’s no excuse for giving this game a miss!

Sun International’s hugely successful casino, GrandWest in Cape Town will be on the receiving end of a massive expansion project, according to the South African gambling and hospitality group.

Sun International explained that it will be investing R122 million in the initial stages of the expansion plan, which will be mainly spent on the expansion of the GrandWest Grand Casino.

Changes to the complex, considered the busiest in Sun International’s portfolio, include the construction of a separate 250 room, 4-star conference hotel to meet the growing needs of tourists and businesspeople visiting Cape Town.

For years, we’ve being switching some of our most basic activities to the online world. Whether we shop, bank or even date online, there is something to be said for the convenience of it all. So, it comes as no surprise that in recent times, more and more South Africans are buying their lottery tickets online. And of course, if more lottery tickets are bought online or remotely, a natural consequence of that fact is that more lottery jackpots are won by players who purchased their tickets remotely.

Recently, South Africa’s National Lottery operator, Ithuba, announced that 2022 was the year where a record number of people won their jackpots on tickets bought via banking apps. The majority of South African winners who played and won the Powerball and Lotto division one jackpots via a banking app were users of the First National Bank banking app.

Don’t you wish that you were a psychic and could foretell your online casino jackpot wins before playing? But here’s the next best thing. South Africa’s favorite gaming site, Springbok Casino is inviting you to play the brand new Tarot Destiny slot, which is launching in its casino lobby this week, and you could be looking at big rewards in your future!

This is a 10 pay line, 5 x 3 slot game with a mysterious fortune-telling theme. You’ll find Crystal Balls, Treasure Chests and Tarot Cards on the reels, as well as lots of bonus symbols to take your play to a new level!

The world of online gambling wouldn’t be complete without progressive jackpot games to keep players entertained and rewarded. These are fun to play and loaded with literally millions of ZAR to win through pooled jackpots. Here are some of the hottest progressive jackpot slots that you can enjoy in 2023. And the best news? They can all be played under one virtual roof at Casino.com!

Some of the best progressive slot games are old favorites that always remain popular. Case in point is Playtech/Ash Gaming’s 2011 release Leprechaun’s Luck.