The Politics of Pushing Legislation on Online Casinos in South Africa

• Dunstan Andre
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• November 18, 2020

Sun International has been campaigning the Southern African Department of Trade and Industry to permit land-based casinos’ rights to operate online casino games.

South African operators are gently forcing the authorities to pass laws permitting online casinos to run together with the legalized and controlled online gaming sector. They’re hoping that the hard work put into the 2008 National Gambling Amendment Act to officially legalize online casino gaming will eventually be finished.

Kelvin Jones, senior editor of PlayCasino said: “For several decades, South Africa’s internet gaming business has been working in a gray zone. The challenging blow that the business took throughout the Covid-19 lockdown had retail operators appearing afresh at other revenue alternatives, along with the evident attention was on internet gambling.

These operators will need to reevaluate their company in the aftermath of the outbreak and of course, they would like to prevent retrenching staff. The very ideal means to do this would be to repackage their companies, and what greater — and much more demonstrated — a method to do this than to provide their services.”

“South Africans are enormous fans of online casinos as well,” said Kelvin Jones. “Millions of South Africans play regulated, accredited foreign websites which are wholly concentrated on the neighborhood player and also permit them to purchase ZAR.

Well-established and respectable casino operators like Tsogo Sun and Sun International are aware of them but they wish to get things the ideal way. Instead, they want the government to give the green light to allow them to tap to the Rand online casino market.”

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Sun International was campaigning the Southern African Department of Trade and Industry allowing land-based casinos that the right to provide internet casino games such as those offering the latest online casinos bonuses at Kiff Slots. SunBet brand started draw-based games a few months ago and intends to present online variations of live seller names.

Tsogo Sun also has urged the authorities to take a second look at present online gaming laws. The team’s CEO, Chris du Toit stated that online gaming has been a “natural development” for its company, which is currently at an advanced phase of going into online sports gaming.

“The South African government shouldn’t pass on this momentous fad,” explained PlayCasino’s Kelvin Jones. “As we have seen in different areas of earth, it is not a given that land-based casino operators are wholly supportive of the internet gaming market.

Here’s the ideal chance for those operators to construct their companies, prevent retrenchments, raise their earnings, and cancel the horrible losses brought on by the pandemic. On the flip side, the authorities will profit from increased tax earnings and a stronger market. It actually is a win-win.”