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Still gambling with our future
Still gambling with our future
11 Mar 2021
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Every generation remembers their football team’s kit from their childhood – was the Newcastle United you remember sponsored by Northern Rock? Virgin? NTL? For children these days, however, the team they watch weekly is emblazoned with ‘Fun88’, a betting company. And the chances are the team they are playing against is also sponsored by a gambling firm.
Over half of the teams in the top two tiers of English football have gambling sponsors on their kit.
1 Columnist Owen Jones reported that a four-year-old boy was so influenced by this phenomenon that he named his teddy bear ‘Betway’ –the shirt sponsor for West Ham.
The economy of South Africa could sky rocket with the legalization of online gambling.
The online gambling industry is one worth multibillions of Rand. But uncertainty and no regulation at in this illegal industry has made the government incapable of gaining revenue from it.
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South Africa, you only have forty casinos that legally operate and you know what all of them have in common, they are physical casinos. Every other casino is illegal, doesn’t matter if it is a love casino or an online casino. It has no right to operate in South Africa. But when did the black market ever listen to the rules?