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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2020-10-02</periodOfReport>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001041514</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>UEPS</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001293885</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Ball Antony C</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>PRESIDENT PLACE, 4TH FLOOR</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>CNR. JAN SMUTS AVENUE AND BOLTON ROAD</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>JOHANNESBURG</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>T3</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>2196</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription>SOUTH AFRICA</rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>true</isDirector>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2020-10-02</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>P</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>20909</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>3.43</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>10154965</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>I</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <natureOfOwnership>
                    <value>See Footnotes</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </natureOfOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Value Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd (&quot;VCP&quot;) ,of which the reporting person is a minority shareholder and its chairman, has been appointed as investment manager to a South African collective investment scheme trust and certain segregated accounts (the &quot;VCP Managed Funds&quot;), providing VCP with voting and dispositive power over the shares of the common stock (the &quot;Shares&quot;) of Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc. (&quot;Net 1&quot;) directly held by any of the VCP Managed Funds and therefore VCP and accordingly the reporting person may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of such Shares. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of these Shares except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Purchase prices for the transactions reported here range from $3.38 to $3.45. Full information regarding the number of Shares purchased at each separate price will be provided to the SEC, Net 1 or its shareholders upon request.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Antony C Ball</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2020-10-05</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
