View this post on Hive: How much South African players spend on lottery tickets?
In the depths of the Internet, if you search well, you can find everything - e.g. official sales data for lottery products of all countries associated in a special organization World Lottery Association. The latest data that can be reached is for 2017 published at the end of 2018.
Ithuba, the owner of lottery products in the South Africa has total sales in 2017:
R6,003,378,965
Draw-based games: R5,804,557,444
Scratch tickets: R20,956,406
Sport: R177,865,115
For more, results of SA Powerball and Lotto visit: https://www.africanlottery.net