Online gambling remains banned in South Africa, excluding on sports betting sites with a licensed bookmaker. Despite the ban, it has been estimated players can access as many as 2,000 online casino sites. Do you anticipate any changes to be implemented in the near future? Is enough being done to enforce the ban?
Tis is currently a burning issue and we continue to lobby and assist the National and Provincial Gambling Boards to deal with the illegal and illegitimate online casinos.
Currently we are dealing with representations regarding Google AdWords. Google have unfortunately adopted a position of disabling legitimately licensed South African Bookmakers’ Google AdWords accounts, yet continue to facilitate the advertisement of foreign online casinos to South African citizens.
Currently we are dealing with representations regarding Google AdWords. Google have unfortunately adopted a position of disabling legitimately licensed South African Bookmakers’ Google AdWords accounts, yet continue to facilitate the advertisement of foreign online casinos to South African citizens.
As part of our representations on the need for national norms and standards, SABA
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recommended that a dedicated law enforcement unit/function be established and staffed by persons having appropriate levels of experience.
Tis includes experience covering on-the- ground criminal law enforcement as well as criminal prosecutions, in order to provide the necessary assistance and support to Provincial Gambling Boards in investigating unlawful operations, procuring warrants, conducting search and seizures and providing the necessary support to prosecutors.
Gauteng, North West, Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Free State, Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Western Cape - each of these South African provinces has their own statutory bodies alongside numerous district and local municipalities. How complex is this for operators navigating between them? Is their unnecessary bureaucracy or does the National Gambling Board have sufficient oversight of the entire industry?
In one word, a nightmare. Tere is without question, an urgent need for concrete, meaningful and fully enforceable norms and standards, which should apply throughout the country to act as the bedrock for a predictable and streamlined regulatory environment which effectively eliminates duplication of regulatory effort and costs.
As stakeholders in a regulated industry, we have
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