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South Africa’s online sports betting enters a new phase as mobile-first operators reshape the market

South Africa’s consumer internet has spent the past five years quietly rebuilding itself around the smartphone, and the numbers behind that shift are now too large to ignore. Industry surveys put smartphone penetration well above seventy percent of adults, mobile data prices have

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South Africa’s online sports betting enters a new phase as mobile-first operators reshape the marketSouth Africa’s consumer internet has spent the past five years quietly rebuilding itself around the smartphone, and the numbers behind that shift are now too large to ignore. Industry surveys put smartphone penetration well above seventy percent of adults, mobile data prices have
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