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Correction log
Every material correction we have made, most recent first. A correction is logged here when a published fact changed, not when wording was tidied. Where a licence number was withdrawn, the withdrawal is also stated on the operator's own row in the licence register, so the two cannot drift apart.
| Date | Page | What we published | What it says now | Why it changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | ZAR Bets review and the licence register | Western Cape bookmaker licence 10010581-031, read from ZARbet's own site footer. The National Gambling Board register entry was not shown. | Licence 10010581-030, taken from the National Gambling Board register, with the footer's 10010581-031 also published and the difference explained. | The trailing digits of a Western Cape licence are its renewal sequence, so the footer and the register were describing the same licence at different points rather than disagreeing. Only the footer number was published here, which left the entry a reader could actually look up missing. This is the same difference already recorded for SportPesa on 9 August, and it is resolved the same way: both numbers published, neither swapped away, because the board has not been asked which it considers current. The register also gives the licensee as Apollo Gaming 2024 (Pty) Ltd t/a ZARbet.co.za, at the address the footer already showed. |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Football closing-odds archive and who pays best | The new results archive read its prices from a data path that had stopped updating on 5 August, so its first day pages published week-old reads labelled as closing prices. Separately, the who-pays-best page was rendering a price history that silently stopped recording on 7 August, when publishing moved off the machine that had been recording it, so it showed 240 checks while the homepage showed 487 from a healthier counter. | The stale-path pages were withdrawn the same day and the archive was rebuilt against the live board feed. The history recorder now runs on the publishing machine itself, on every publish. | Both failures were one root cause: a consumer left pointing at a data source that had quietly died, while the file's timestamp looked fresh. The fix is the pattern used elsewhere on this site, reading the generated-at time inside the data rather than trusting that a file which exists is a file being updated. |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Twelve review pages, licence evidence dates | Licence evidence dated between 2 May and 7 August 2026, on operators whose footers we had since re-read. | Twelve operators are dated 10 August 2026, each citing the operator page the number was read from. | We built a check that fetches every operator's own footer and compares the licence number against what we publish. Twelve were readable and every one matched; twenty-one block automated access or render the footer in JavaScript, and those keep their older dates rather than being credited with a check that did not happen. Only the operator's own page is redated by this: register sources are never touched, because they were not re-read. |
| 9 Aug 2026 | SportPesa review and the licence register | Western Cape bookmaker licence 10183090-010, taken from the National Gambling Board register. | Licence 10183090-011, issued 1 July 2017, read from SportPesa's own site footer. The register entry is also shown, and the difference explained. | The trailing digits of a Western Cape licence are its renewal sequence, so the number we published was one renewal behind the one the operator itself displays. Our own record noted at the time that we had taken it from the register and had not captured the operator footer; reading the footer resolved it. Both are now published side by side rather than one being swapped for the other, because we have not asked the board which it considers current. |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Homepage ranking and the World Sports Betting review | The site's top-ranked bookmaker was labelled "Licence evidence partial" with the note that it "blocked automated licence capture", and its welcome offer was shown as "still being verified". | Two provincial licences, Western Cape and Mpumalanga, and a 100% first deposit match up to R20,000 with its wagering quoted. | Both facts had already been established: the licences were read from the operator's footer on 6 August and logged here, and the offer terms were read and published on our bonus terms page. The homepage reads a different dataset, and nothing compared the two, so the number one bookmaker on this site described its own evidence as incomplete while another page carried it in full. Four other operators were in the same state. A build check now compares the datasets against each other. |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Six comparison pages including Easybet | "Neither publishes a welcome offer we could verify, so a bonus is not a reason to pick either one." | Easybet's offer is published in full: a 150% first deposit match up to R5,000, granted only after 4x the deposit at odds of 2.0 or higher on sport, or 15x on slots. | The statement was true of our records and false about the bookmaker. Easybet publishes its bonus terms on its promotion pages rather than in its terms document, and an earlier search of 158,678 characters of those terms found nothing and concluded the offer could not be verified. Searching the wrong document is not the same as an operator publishing nothing, and the page should not have said so. Both pages were read directly on 9 August 2026. FirstBet was in the same state and is also now read. |
| 9 Aug 2026 | 10bet review, the homepage ranking and two guides | 10bet had "the biggest matched welcome offer we could verify" at 100% up to R5,000, and "the R5,000 ceiling is the highest on this page". | 10bet's offer is described as a 100% match up to R5,000 credited on deposit. FirstBet publishes a larger ceiling at 100% up to R10,000, though it is granted only after wagering five times the deposit. | Four separate claims, all true when written, all made false at once by verifying FirstBet's terms. They were typed by hand rather than computed, which is the same fault as the bookmaker count that once read 29 on a site covering 33. Comparative claims about offers are now derived from the offer data, and a build check fails the site if any superlative disagrees with it. |
| 9 Aug 2026 | Fastest withdrawal guide | "no South African bookmaker publishes a verified payout time". | Two do. Supabets states withdrawals are processed within 24 hours and TopBet states instant money withdrawals are processed instantly, capped at R3,000. Betway publishes two different answers on the same page. | We asserted it after two automated page fetches returned nothing, and wrote a fact about our own tooling up as a fact about the industry. It was wrong for a reason worth stating: these FAQ answers are present in the page but hidden, so Betway's runs to 1,848 characters of visible text against 62,588 actually there. Anything reading only the visible text concludes the page is empty. We have now opened and read the pages of twelve operators. |
| 7 Aug 2026 | BetXChange review | Three licence numbers, one of them "NGGB Licence Number 11111", described as a signal read from the operator's own site footer. | Two licence numbers: Eastern Cape ECBM 041 and Gauteng JOH-056. | We checked the number against the National Gambling Board's verified-operators register. 11111 appears against no operator in any province, and no South African gambling board uses the acronym NGGB. We could not corroborate it, so it should never have sat in a list a reader reads as licence evidence. The two remaining numbers were confirmed in that same register on the same day, against BetXchange.com (Pty) Ltd and Keith Ho Racing (Pty) Ltd respectively. |
| 7 Aug 2026 | Licence register | Betfred South Africa and Bettabets both listed the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board as regulator. | Both list the Mpumalanga Economic Regulator. | The Western Cape licence numbers for both had already been withdrawn as unsourced, but the regulator column still named the withdrawn regulator. The register contradicted itself. Found in an external audit. |
| 7 Aug 2026 | What each book charges | A note stating that Sunbet "renders nowhere on this site" because it was marked unverified. | The note has been removed. | It was false. Sunbet is ranked, has its own review and appears in the licence register. It was also written in internal implementation language rather than for a reader. |
| 7 Aug 2026 | How to self-exclude | The page carried a sticky bookmaker call-to-action with an affiliate link. | No commercial call-to-action appears on harm-support pages. | A page about barring yourself from bookmakers must not advertise one. Pages about stopping, limiting or getting help with gambling are now excluded from commercial modules automatically rather than one at a time. |
| 6 Aug 2026 | World Sports Betting review | Licence evidence was described as partial, captured 3 May 2026, and the review was withheld from search results. | Both provincial licence numbers are published, read from the operator's own footer on 6 August 2026, and the review is indexable. | The May check was blocked by bot protection and never captured the footer. Reading it directly confirmed the two numbers that had been held as unverified. |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Licence register | Bettabets: Western Cape bookmaker licence 10188186-007. | Mpumalanga Economic Regulator licence 9-2-1-09303, quoted from the operator footer. | The Western Cape number had no source attached and is contradicted by the operator. Withdrawn. |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Licence register | Betfred South Africa: Western Cape bookmaker licence 10052309-038. | Mpumalanga Economic Regulator licence 9-2-1-00039, quoted from the operator footer and corroborated against the register. | The Western Cape number had no source attached and is supported by neither the footer nor the register. Withdrawn. |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Licence register | Jabula Bets: bookmaker licence 10190511-005. | Western Cape bookmaker licence 10190512, quoted from the operator footer. | The previous number had no source attached and differs from the one the operator publishes. Withdrawn. |
None of these corrections changed a bookmaker's ranking position. The ranking is computed from licence evidence, regulator coverage, offer value, product and measured price performance; correcting which regulator issued a licence does not change that a licence exists and is evidenced. The World Sports Betting change did move it from withheld to indexable, because the reason for withholding it had gone.