New Life For Online Gambling In South Africa?
Maybe, just maybe. Most likely you are up to speed on the situation with online gambling site and online casino action in South Africa. Despite the inarguable fact that quite a number of South Africans regularly enjoy online casino action the reality of the South African legal system that as of now legal online casinos are not authorized. And if the government, and most especially the infamous Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has its way, legalized online casino action will never happen in South Africa.
Unless it does. Unless online gambling shows up in a different way, that is. Well heads up, all signs point to that different way may be about to show up. Here’s how this may play out.
Do you know the name Craig Venter? If not, here is all you need to know. Craig Venter held the role of Group Executive of Altron TMT, a company focused on Telecommunications, Multi-media and Information Technology (TMT) until July 2015. In other words, someone with the resources and know how to get things done.
So what is Craig up to? It turns out that Craig has only just recently launched a new website that may very well change online gambling in South Africa as you see it today. This new site bears the name ClickaBet. Clickabet purports to be “an innovative betting solution for the sports betting fan”. The new online sports betting site goes on to say: “…customers enjoy seamless betting on a secure site with cutting edge design and instant payouts….making for an immensely pleasurable betting experience.”
By this point you may find yourself wondering how a new online gambling site could be launched in South Africa today. Yet the truth of the matter is that ClickaBet is quite proud of the fact that the online gambling site is 100% legal and, get this: fully licensed in South Africa by The Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board (WCGRB). For the record, ClickaBet is a Level 2 BEE, 40% black owned business.
More importantly, you have to wonder what the end result will be for online casino action in South Africa. Will ClickaBet be the final straw, so to speak, that causes South African legislators to finally wake up and give South Africans what they want in the form of legal online casino action? Of course, this latest development is much too new to make any such predictions. Yet don’t be surprised if you start to see a movement towards legalized online gambling sites over time.