{"id":236738,"date":"2026-07-01T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236738"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:56:17","slug":"sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236738","title":{"rendered":"Sizekhaya takes South Africa\u2019s R180 billion lottery licence as court battle looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sizekhaya Holdings has begun operating one of the world\u2019s larger national lotteries under an eight-year contract widely reported to be worth around R180 billion ($10.9 billion) \u2013 a politically charged award now at the centre of a High Court battle that won&#8217;t be heard until later this year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/igamingbusiness.com\/lottery\/sizekhaya-south-africa-lottery-licence-court-battle-looms\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sizekhaya Holdings has begun operating one of the world\u2019s larger national lotteries under an eight-year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236738-sizekhaya-takes-south-africas-r180-billion-lottery-licence-as-court-battle-looms-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}