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WAAG: South Africa: Government

South Africa has been in the process of developing and implementing new online casino gambling regulations and legislation for well over a year now. There was a lot of excitement recently when it looked like the South African government was nearing completion on the drafting of the regulations. That excitement though has worn off more recently as the government is now considering an about-face on the legislation of internet gambling among renewed fears that a fully regulated and government-supported online casino gambling industry will increase the rates of problem gambling in the country to unhealthy levels.

When the online casino gambling issue first started to really become a problem in South Africa a couple of years ago the government vehemently noted that it would not be passing supportive regulations for this industry. One anti-gambling politician went so far as to compare regulating online casinos akin to the government supporting and profiting from prostitution. These are a far cry apart from one another in the eyes of the vast majority of the world, but many South African politicians view the internet gambling industry as a real plague on the nation.

Those sentiments, though strong, have not been the majority though over the past year and the South African government looked to the failing US regulations as indication that blocking and banning the online casinos is not an effective way to handle the industry. The pervasive nature of the gambling industry has caused the government to seriously consider strict regulation as the only effective way to protect South African internet gamblers from the dangers of the black-market underground side of the industry.