Essential information and facts about South Africa:


Capital Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)


Total Area Population


Ethnic Groups Languages


1,219,090 sq.km 56,463,617


Median age 28 years Religion


Christian (86%), others


Black Africans (81%), Mixed race (8.8%), White (7.8%)


11 official languages including isiZulu, IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, English


Currency Rand


Government type Parliamentary Republic Chief of State President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (since 2018)


Head of Government President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa)


Unemployment


Elections President is both Chief of State and head of government. President elected indirectly by National Assembly for five year term (with second term). Next election 2024. 30 per cent


Tourism 17 million foreign tourists


lockdown on March 26th. South Africa at this time had the highest number of cases in Africa according to the World Health Organisation.


Companies began to prepare for the worst. Some 80 per cent of guests at Sun International’s Table Bay casino are international tourists, so the affect of the Covid-19 will be huge.


Prior to lockdown, the casinos had implemented extra hygiene measures including sanitisers throughout the complexes, additional cleaning measures and educational messages for both staff and guests.


Initially, Sun International kept locations open,


but postponed any events with more than 100 people and removed seats from every second slot machine to ensure social distancing.


Table games were limited to four players with seats removed, whilst dining areas were also limited to 100 people. Te company also stopped selling alcohol at any of the casinos, bars and restaurants, whilst crèche facilities at the casinos were closed followed by bars and restaurants as the situation changed.


Sun International is one of Africa’s largest tourism and leisure and gaming brands and operates or has an interest in 19 resorts, luxury hotels and casinos.


Te company was the pioneer of gaming in South Africa when it opened Sun City. Today, it operates 13 casinos in eight South African provinces plus Sun Slots and Sun Bet operations. Sun Slots (formerly known as GPI Slots) is Sun International’s LPM sector, which owns and operate six LPM route operators in four provinces – Grand Gaming Slots in Gauteng and Mpumalanga, Hot Slots in Gauteng, Kingdomslots and KZN Slots in KwaZulu-Natal and GrandSlots in Western Cape.


Te company has a total of 4,328 LPMs via Sun Slots and 882 sites plus a total of 10,800 slots in casinos and 380 table games.


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