Our graphs this week show the sharp increase in online betting in South Africa and in calls made to the national gambling helpline.
This has been fuelled by an increase in betting sites and the addictive products they offer, coupled with aggressive and highly deceptive marketing.
AI coding tools have made it much easier to set up online betting games. The industry is largely unregulated, and it’s a sure way for companies with indifferent ethics to make large amounts of easy money.
The National Gambling Board differentiates between gambling at physical casinos and betting.
Betting includes online gambling and online casinos, which has become ubiquitous, and the horse racing industry, which has become relatively small.
The first graph shows that…
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Van der Merwe goes to Paris to watch the Boks take on the Brits at the world cup.
Whilst in Paris, he walks around, gaping and staring at everything – so much so that he walks smack bang into a fire hydrant which hits him so hard on the family jewels that he has to be rushed to hospital where the doctors tell him they have to remove his testicles.
Van goes berserk, he bites and snarls at every one and he won\’t let anybody within 10 metres of him. Eventually they find a South African doctor in the hospital and get him to talk to Van.
He walks up to Van and tells him \”Hey Van, die ouens moet jou knaters uithaal.\”
Van replies \”O, okay, ek dog die bliksems wil my test tickets vat.\”