No Games Category for South Africans

Hi All,
Just brought my father an iphone from england and got it all activated and he is over-joyed. Going to the app store, there is no games category. There are games in the appstore when you just randomly search, but why is there no Games Category??? To give me dad now some proper games I have to authenticate through my ID and download from the uk app store. What going on? H

Thanks for the update.
Appears they are doing the same with the music market.
Probably a few years before someone wakes up and deals with it.
For now it appears, i would have to purchase stuff for my dad.

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