Betway.co.za review & sign up bonus 2025

Betway ZA is one of our favourite betting sites for the South African betting market, with a great range of betting odds and a reputable brand to boot. Betway bonus offers and promotions are also some of the market leaders in South Africa. Our Betway.co.za review will run you through all aspects of this well-known bookmaker, including deposit options, Betway welcome bonus and its licensing. We will also run you through Betway’s live casino and other real money games.

CLAIM BONUS: New members at Betway South Africans get up to R25 bonus!!

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Betway sports sign-up bonus

Betway South Africa has a great sign-up bonus for new players: a R25 Free bet, which can be used on soccer, cricket, rugby or any other sports that have available betting markets.

The Betway no-deposit sign-up bonus can be activated by following any of the links on this page and opening a new account. If you pass Betway ZA’s automatic verification tool (that proves your identity) the 25R will be credited to your account.

If your Betway South Africa account cannot be verified automatically you might have to supply FICA documents, meaning you won’t receive your bonus until these have been processed and verified.

The Betway free bet is one of the best bookie bonus offers for South Africans because it doesn’t have any hidden requirements. New customers who place bets using the sign-up bonus will receive “any and all winnings” barring the initial sign-up bet stake.

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Betway.co.za promotions 2025

Betway South Africa has a bevy of other promotions available in 2025, usually centering around popular sports events that are on at any given time. The Betway.co.za promotions available at the time of writing our review included:

• The Return: Bet on the English Premier League, La Liga or Bundesliga matches from June 26-July 31 and you could win up to R500 or more in cash. There is also a jackpot prize of R100,000 attached to this football promotion at Betway.
• 4 To Score: Another great Betway promotion is the Four To Score offer. Betway gives you the opportunity each week to win up to R100,000 by picking the first goal-scorer in four selected football games. Entering this Betway promotion is free.
• Boost your multi-bet winnings by 150%: Win up to 150% extra when taking multi-bets at Betway. For every leg with odds greater than 1.2 Betway will boost your winnings. The best part of this Betway promotion? The more legs you add to your multi the more it is boosted.
• Money Back Boost with BetYourWay: One of our favourite Betway promotion offers is the Betway Money Back Boost. To enter this promotion, add six or more selection your multi bet slip and you will get 20x your bet refunded if one of your legs bombs. This means if you put on a R10 multibet you will receive R200 free.

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Betway sports betting review

Betway.co.za has a huge selection of sports betting markets available on any given day, with this its bread and butter in South Africa. Betway has markets available on local sports such as the South African Premier Division, various domestic cricket and football competitions.

Overseas sports are also well covered at Betway.co.za, which is no surprise given the Betway.com domain is one of the largest sports betting companies on the planet. Betway South Africa will have extensive markets available on all of the major football leagues from around the world, including the English Premier League, La Liga, Major League Soccer and many more. You will also be able to bet live on games that are already under way.

On a standard football game in a competition such as the EPL there will be as many as 50 different betting markets available at Betway, including things like win-draw-win, handicap betting, over/under markets, goal scorer betting and even cards betting. Basically if you are looking for a football bookmaker Betway.co.za is a great choice.

It’s a similar story with other popular international sports such as basketball, cricket, the various rugby codes and many more.

Live sports betting at Betway

Betway South Africa has a huge selection of live or in-play sports betting markets, including on popular local sports such as cricket, rugby and football. Not only are local sports covered with live or in-play betting at Betway.co.za, big international sports such as soccer are covered heavily, meaning you can bet on most leagues after their games are under way. As a general rule when talking about live sports betting at Betway you will find a nice selection of odds and markets on every match, including things such as who will win, next goal scorer, who will win the rest of the match and even things like moving lines and handicap markets.

Betway live betting is a great way to make bank when betting online, as it allows you to lay off when you are in a strong position with a previous wager, or bet on an event when you spot a shift in momentum.

Jika sports betting

Betway has recently updated its offering to include virtual sports betting, or Jika Sports as it’s known in South Africa. Jika Sports allows players to bet on virtual sports events, and watch them from their computer. The Jika Sports offering, by virtual games provider Kiron, has games tailored for the South African market, so it has a familiar feel.

Sports included in the Jika Sports offering include football, which is how the company started out, horse racing, greyhound racing and motorsports. You essentially can place a variety of pre-post bets and then watch them almost immediately.

While the team at the World Gambling List has always been a little bit skeptical about virtual sports betting, the Betway virtual sports is among the best that we have seen in this space. It’s definitely worth checking out if you join the Betway bookmaker.

eSports betting at Betway ZA

Betway has one of the better esports offerings you will find at a global online betting site, with all of the major games, such as Dota 2, LoL, WoW, Fortnite and Call of Duty covered extensively. This offering of video game markets is something that really sets Betway’s betting options apart from the competition.

All in all if you are looking to bet on esports, Betway South Africa is a great option, with its depth of markets among the best in this country. For instance all of the major esports — FIFA, LOL, Dota 2, Counter-Strike, Overwatch, Rainbow Six and COD — all had betting markets available at the time of writing our Betway review.

The bet types available in the esports betting section at Betway include win bets, map betting, correct map score, various handicap betting and even things like how long a game will go, although these types of markets can vary from event to event and game to game.

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Betway.co.za horse racing review

betway.co.za does have horse racing these days, with the markets offered including South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, India, UK and Ireland. 

Betway, as you will see in the screenshot above, lays their horse racing out in a way that has become standard for online bookmakers. After you have navigated to the “Horse Racing” tab, you will be presented with Next Off, Today, Tomorrow, Future and Ante Post. 

Next off, is simply the next races to jump, wherever they may be; Today’s racing, gives you a list of the meetings taking place around the world on that day; Tomorrow, lists tomorrow’s meetings; and then strangely enough they have Future and Ante-post, which are essentially the same thing. Under these last two tabs you will find markets for races taking place in the future, with these including both major horse racing in South Africa and international group or black type events. 

Betway does have an achilles heel with their horse racing coverage, and it is their lack of bet types for fixed odds markets. For instance, on a standard South Africa racing meeting at Turffontein, they only had a win market, for fixed odds betting. 

However, there are plenty more bet types, when you bet via the tote option, with these including: 

Win	Swinger
Place	Exacta
Trifecta	Quartet
Double	Pick 3
Place Accumulator	All-To-Come

Essentially if you are a punter at Betway on race day, the way to wager will be via their tote product, with these bet options pretty standard across the world of horse racing betting. 

Betway’s racing odds are also very competitive with their competitors, with our testing for this Betway review, showing they had better odds than Sportingbet.co.za and Supabets.co.za in four out of six races. 

Betway’s horse racing product can be accessed via their website, and their mobile betting options, including the Android, Huawei and iOS apps.

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Betway.co.za mobile review

Betway mobile is compatible with a variety of smartphones and tablets. The online ZA-facing Betway has developed native mobile casino gaming apps for Android and iOS devices. One way to access Betway’s gambling services is to download and install these apps on smartphones or tablets.

A sometimes more convenient way to play on the move at Betway is to just use the web app, which doesn’t require any download. To use the web app, players have to visit the casino on their mobile devices, login using existing details, and play the games right from their browser.

The Betway Android and iOS apps are designed to work on Samsung (and other Android phones) and iOS smartphones respectively. They are basically the same as the mobile website, but have some cool dynamic features like the odds updating instantly and live markets being more interactive.

Read our Betway South Africa app guide, to learn more about what is available.

Betway ZA Android app

The Betway Android app for South Africans can be downloaded directly from its website after you have created a new account. You need to make sure you have allowed unknown sources in your apps settings. You will then be able to download the Betway Android app.

Betway ZA iOS app

After you have created a Betway South Africa account, visit the footer of the website and find the link to “Betway App”. From here you can tap the Apple app button and download the Betway iOS app.

Betway Huawei app

The Betway Huawei app can be downloaded from the AppGallery after you are a member at Betway.co.za. Alternatively if you are a member you can download it via the link above.

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Betway Casino review

Betway Casino in South Africa is mainly made up of live casino games and online slots, although there is constantly different games being added to the selection at this popular gambling website.

The Betway slots feature many of the top iGaming developers, with these including giants like Playtech, Net Entertainment, Play’n Go and Red Tiger Gaming, which are all among the best in the world.

Betway Casino really excels when it comes to their live dealer casino games, with literally hundreds of tables available at any given time, with these ranging from casino classics like blackjack, roulette and baccarat, right through to online-only gameshow titles, and versions of games that you don’t find at casinos in South Africa.

While Betway.co.za is not as developed as their international website, in terms of online casino games, it has improved markedly in recent years as regulation surrounding online gambling in South Africa.

Being on the same URL and login as sports betting, Betway Casino operates on the same account, meaning the funding methods spoken about in this Betway review remain relevant for the casino aspect of the business.

What does change, is the Betway bonus offers you might want to consider, with meany geared towards their casino games. For instance, at the time of writing this Betway.co.za Casino review they had a slots tournament, featuring Playtech games, where you would a share of R$500k.

The South African Gambling List regularly writes Betway Casino promotional articles, which can be viewed in our casino promotions category or on this page.

Betway Casino promotions in South Africa

While Betway Casino has not had online slots and other casino games for very long, they are already constantly dropping promotions surrounding these games. The WGL team often writes about Betway Casino’s promotions.

Live casino at Betway ZA

While Betway ZA does not have online slots or the full complement of casino games that other gambling sites have in 2025, we do like the fact it has a great live casino. The Betway live casino is powered by Evolution Gaming, Playtech, Ezugi, Authentic Gaming, On Air Entertainment and Amusnet

On top of your classic live casino games such as online blackjack, online roulette and baccarat; Betway live casino also has Evo Games Live Gameshows, which includes Deal or No Deal, Crazy Time and Monopoly.

There are also some Betway branded tables that are worth a look, with these largely powered by Playtech.

Overall, if you are looking to play live casino games in South Africa, you cannot go wrong with this online gambling powerhouse.

The list of live dealer casino games available at SA Betway includes:

Betway.co.za Casino software providers

Betway Casino in South Africa takes their games from a variety of iGaming developers, including Playtech, Net Entertainment and EGT, three of the biggest in the world.

The full list of Betway.co.za Casino software providers includes:

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Bet Games at Betway.co.za

Betgames.TV is available at Betway ZA, with this type of online gambling available at many legal bookmakers.

Bet Games Africa is essentially like live lottery draws, with players buying tickets into a draw, with the games having fixed odds. This means you are combining fixed odds betting and lottery.

Live draws take place every 3-5 minutes at Betway.co.za, meaning you can play these types of games 24/7, as a fun alternative to sports betting.

Betway has easily accessible instructions or rules for each of the Bet Games, meaning you won’t have any trouble learning how to play.

Betway’s full list of Bet Games includes:

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Lucky Numbers or lotto betting at Betway.co.za

Lotto betting has become increasingly popular right across the globe, with these insured lotto draws essentially allowing punters to play in lotto draws from all over the world. Instead of buying a ticket into a lotto draw, you are actually betting with a licensed bookmaker on the result of the draw. If you are lucky enough to win you will be gifted the same prize as the draw paid.

The Betway Lucky Number offering includes draws from the USA and Canada, although you will find that there are draws taking place all over the world. For instance you can enter into the Australian lotto, New Zealand draws and even those of many European countries.

While we had a fair idea that lotto betting was not for us before we started writing our Betway review, we can vouch for its safety, with operators such as LottoLand making it popular worldwide.

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Rand payment types at Betway.co.za

Betway South Africa has numerous Rand payment types, making it very easy to fund your account. The ZAR deposit options at Betway include:

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Betway customer service South Africa

Betway South Africa has many different methods for you to contact them, including via phone, email and live chat. These are the methods that are the most reliable in our experiences betting with Betway South Africa. The full list of ZA Betway customer support options includes:

• Maxi Call: 0861 787 250
• Email: Support@betway.co.za
• FICA Support: FICA@betway.co.za
• WhatsApp: +27 60 671 6982
• Facebook: /BetwaySouthAfrica
• X: @betway_za

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Betway South Africa licensing

Betway is licensed by the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board, which is one of the nine provinces that regulates sports betting. This licence gives Betway permission to accept sports bets from South Africans as long as they are 18 or older.

Bookmaker Licence Number: 10181496-006

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Betway.co.za review verdict

Betway.co.za is one of our top online betting sites for South Africa, with the only downside of this popular betting company being it is yet to add horse racing into its markets. The Betway bonus offers and promotions are some of the fairer ones you will find in the gambling industry. Topping off the Betway SA site is the fact it has a great live casino, including baccarat, roulette and blackjack, and some unique real money games.