National Gambling Board maintains that online casino games are illegal in South Africa

[mylesillidge]

Online gambling banned in South Africa

The National Gambling Board (NGB) maintains that interactive gambling remains illegal in South Africa, except for online sports betting through licensed bookmakers.

A statement on its website is blunt: “The answer to whether online or interactive gambling is legal in South Africa is a simple and unequivocal no, with the exception of online sports betting.”

 

[My_King]

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[RaptorSA]

Yeah, *gambling bad. Economy f**ed. People stupid.
Good luck getting a good outcome from any of those.

In other news...
Lyk bietjie meer soos 'n p**s jou peacocking mamparra:



*Unless it's a national lottery where the cadres get to eat good.

 

[Bad Ballie]

Yes, we were aware due to the sterling job his government has done clamping down on illegal activity including illegal online gambling over the last 30 years.

 

[McGuywer]

Thank you for the insightful article heading. Oh wait....

 

[Hemi300c]

Tell DSTV that
Tell this to and close the Mpumalanga Gambling Board

Ban all advertising everywhere eg TV, radio and online

 

[Apogee]

No mention about the National Lottery's money being stolen by fake beneficiaries linked to the NLC themselves.

https://groundup.org.za/article/lottery-olympics-scammers-must-pay-back-the-money/

 

[theratman]

And yet all of the provincial boards have the opposite opinion. The NGB is a complete joke.

 

[mpdjhb]

Gambling should be made illegal - but it will never happen. Get rid of the "licenced" operators and the unlicenced ones will flourish.
Its a societal issue.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Fck off, let people spend their money how they want and ruin their lives if they want to. We don't need moral police, and the government isn't complaining about the extra tax either...

 

[FiestaST]

 

[Ninja'd]

Online gambling banned in South Africa

The National Gambling Board (NGB) maintains that interactive gambling remains illegal in South Africa, except for online sports betting through licensed bookmakers.

A statement on its website is blunt: “The answer to whether online or interactive gambling is legal in South Africa is a simple and unequivocal no, with the exception of online sports betting.”

Motherf**ker, you advertise Gates of Olympus and Aviator on SABC tv and I swear one time during Takalani Sesame too.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Never understood how it is ok to piss your money away on which team can kick a ball better than another, but not ok to do so on the cards...

 

[MrGray]

There should be a section in our constitution that states that if no law or regulation is enforced for a fixed period, it automatically falls away.

Lawmakers shouldn't be allowed to do F-all about a rule for years and years, and then one day suddenly decide that something should be done about it.

Personally, I think online gambling is a terrible idea, but that's not the point.

And, I'm sorry, but if the problem here is that it wasn't being enforced at provincial level, then you charge the people at provincial level who refused to do anything as accomplices. That's a BS excuse.

 

[Hemi300c]

paul will enforce this so he can steal and pocket more.

 

[ToxicBunny]

And yet all of the provincial boards have the opposite opinion. The NGB is a complete joke.

They're just bitter that people are ignoring them mostly.

 

[MrGray]

And yet all of the provincial boards have the opposite opinion. The NGB is a complete joke.

It should not be a matter of opinion. If the NGB does not want to be considered a joke, then they should lay charges, prosecute the organizations they believe to be breaking the law, and allow a judge to determine its legality. If they attempted this and no prosecutor took it to court then that should have been their answer and they should either shut up or lobby to have the law better defined. I just don't get why all our state institutions are so pathetic, and take two years at a time to respond to anything.

 

[ToxicBunny]

It should not be a matter of opinion. If the NGB does not want to be considered a joke, then they should lay charges, prosecute the organizations they believe to be breaking the law, and allow a judge to determine its legality. If they attempted this and no prosecutor took it to court then that should have been their answer and they should either shut up or lobby to have the law better defined. I just don't get why all our state institutions are so pathetic, and take two years at a time to respond to anything.

The NGB won't do that because they possibly know that they'll lose and that then completely sets the precedent for everyone ignoring their existence.

 

[SeRpEnT]

It's not exactly rocket science... the NGB cannot get their claws on the online gambling money...
In 2024/2025 they made R230 million from local gambling license fees and managed to spend this as part of their total R278 annual budget. What exactly does a gambling board do per year with R278 mil? Well it's in their annnual report... off this they paid out R56mill in salaries and "created" a PTY who tendered for a (BEE) tender contract - to which R190 mil was paid to monitor gambling machines. R190 million!

 

[MrGray]

The NGB won't do that because they possibly know that they'll lose and that then completely sets the precedent for everyone ignoring their existence.

Yeah, well IMHO it is all symptomatic of a larger issue, i.e. the agencification of public administration into dozens of dysfunctional Section 3a entities run largely by imbeciles without any sensible oversight from their respective ministries.