Online gambling is sucking South Africa dry.
The industry’s sheer scale and hard-to-fathom growth rate has already made it something like a structural feature of the economy with roots that seem to burrow deeper by the day.
The headline number: a 550% increase in gambling in only four years with no sign of a reprieve, reaching a turnover R1.14-trillion in the 2023/24 year or nearly 17% of GDP.
And that is only the measurable part reported by locally licensed operators. That figure excludes any platform registered abroad making it impossible to fully grasp the size of the problem.
Meanwhile the industry’s carpet-bombing approach to marketing has saturated public life in a…
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Van is hitch-hiking and he gets picked up by a larnie in a merc. After travelling awhile and making small talk, Van asks the larnie what the 3-pointed star on the bonnet is for. The larnie decides to have some fun with Van.
\”Oh, that\’s the sights, you know, for aiming. When I see someone on the side of the road and I want to run him over, I just line him up in the sights.\”