Selling beats from South Africa has one problem that selling beats from anywhere else does not: getting the money. Most beat marketplaces pay out in dollars, through a service that either is not available here or charges enough on the conversion that a R300 sale becomes something closer to R250. This is what the routes actually are.
A beat sale is usually small. R200 to R800 is a normal range for a lease. Fees that would be trivial on a R10,000 transaction are not trivial on a R300 one, and a fixed fee plus a conversion spread can take a tenth of it before anything reaches you. So the question is not only who has the audience. It is what arrives in your account afterwards.
A lease is permission to use the beat under conditions you set: how many copies, whether it can be monetised, whether it stays non-exclusive. An exclusive is the beat itself, sold once, usually with the stems. Price them differently and say which is which on the page, because the single most common reason a beat sale goes wrong is a buyer who thought they bought one and got the other.
On Feelz Machine a buyer in South Africa pays by card in rand through Paystack, and the artist’s share settles into their own South African bank account rather than into a platform balance. A buyer outside the country pays in dollars through PayPal. The platform takes no cut of either: the only deduction is the card processor’s fee, and on a rand sale the buyer covers it, so the figure you set is the figure you are owed.
Start by looking at what beats in your genre go for locally rather than at what American producers charge, because your buyer is comparing you to the former. Then set a price you would be happy to receive forty times, because volume at a fair price beats one exclusive you spend six months trying to sell. Pay-what-you-want with a minimum is worth using on older beats: it finds the buyers who would have paid more and keeps the ones who would not have bought at all.