The law in South Africa allows financial compensation for reasonable expenses incurred by the donor, i.e. injectable medication, regular consultations, regular ultrasound examination, blood tests and travel expenses to Vitalab.

According to South African law, an egg donor may have no more than six live born children from their donated gametes. Therefore, as a donor you are allowed to donate more than once.

Apart from voluntary anonymous donation by egg donors, there is the possibility of egg donation by sub-fertile couples on a treatment programme, who have an adequate response to stimulation and are willing to donate a few excess eggs anonymously to a recipient. However, in these cases the sub-fertile woman must meet certain conditions, such as age, the absence of an ovarian cause for her sub-fertility and fulfil the same criteria as other donors. Therefore, this type of oocyte donation to other couples is less common.