SASFA

SANS 1718 compliance testing

We test online betting software for player fairness.

SASFA tests bookmakers' and betting operators' software against SANS 1718, the South African standard, and reports clause by clause what passed, what failed and the evidence. One standard, one kind of software, one question: does the player get what they were promised?

Request a test What we test

What a test covers

Six things a player is relying on

Odds and settlement

Every bet type settles exactly as the published rules say, at the odds the player took.

Outcome generation

Where a product generates its own result, such as virtuals or numbers bets, the generator is isolated, statistically tested and unbiased.

The bet record

Every wager stored with stake, odds, selection, time and result, append-only, and shown back to the player.

Player funds and limits

Balances, deposits, withdrawals, deposit and loss limits and self-exclusion enforced by the system, not by a policy document.

Software integrity

The build in production is the build that was tested, proved by hash.

Events and recovery

A lost connection or power cut mid-bet ends in a settled or refunded bet, never a lost one.

How the testing works

How it works

Automated, private, repeatable

  1. 01 NDA and access Sign the NDA, grant read access to your repository, add a sasfa.md that maps the code.
  2. 02 Automated review SASFA's agents review it clause by clause against SANS 1718 on private servers in South Africa. No person reads your code.
  3. 03 Private report Every clause met, partial or missing, with evidence and the fix. R10 000 flat; re-tests priced on what is outstanding.
  4. 04 Pass and deletion A public pass summary naming the build hash, then the environment is destroyed and you get a deletion report.

A SASFA report is not a certificate or a licence. The SABS publishes the standard, a SANAS-accredited laboratory tests, the NRCS certifies and a provincial board authorises. SASFA sits before the laboratory. The certification path and the standard, explained.

Beyond the standard

The SASFA Standards

Seven draft standards for the things SANS 1718 does not cover but a bettor still depends on: what they are told, how advertising behaves, how a dispute is resolved. Tested alongside the SANS clauses on request.

  1. 001 Player Transparency What a bettor must be able to establish before and during play: who operates the site, under which licence, what the rules are and where the terms live.
  2. 002 Outcome Fairness What a fairness claim has to be backed by: published odds and rules, settlement that follows them exactly, and where an outcome is generated, an independently tested generator.
  3. 003 Responsible Gambling Technology Player-protection tools judged by whether they work at the moment a bet is being placed, not by whether they exist in an account menu.
  4. 004 Identity & Age Verification Establishing that a player is who they say they are and old enough to play, without collecting more personal information than the purpose requires.
  5. 005 Advertising Transparency Marketing that states its real terms up front, is not aimed at people who have excluded themselves, and does not present betting as a solution to anything.
  6. 006 Software Integrity Knowing what software is actually running: who supplied it, which version is live, and what changed when it changed.
  7. 007 Player Complaints & Dispute Resolution A route to a decision when something goes wrong, with timeframes a bettor can hold an operator to and an escalation path that does not dead-end.

Tested in South Africa

Most of the software South Africans bet on is built and tested somewhere else. A betting platform that can be tested here, against the standard that applies here, is one more layer of the industry whose value stays in the country.

Why that matters
  1. South African software
  2. Tested in South Africa
  3. South African bookmaker
  4. South African bettor

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