Gauteng Gambling Board Rules And Regulations
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BOARD SECRETARIAT
Provides company secretarial services to the Board and Board Committees to ensure that the Gauteng Gambling Board adheres to and complies with all applicable legislation and corporate governance regulations.
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPLIANCE AUDIT
The Compliance Department of the Gauteng Gambling Board strives to meet the following objectives of the Board:
- Ensure that weekly returns are accurate; properly reflect licensees’ activities & the correct amounts of taxes and levies are paid to the Board.
- Ensure that licensees comply in all material aspects with provisions of the Gauteng Gambling Act, Regulations, Rules and other relevant legislation.
- Ensure compliance to BBBEE and FIC legislation.
- Ensure fairness to punters.
These objectives are achieved by:
- Ensuring accuracy of gaming revenue paid by the licensees and compliance to applicable gaming legislation, by performing revenue and compliance audits;
- Ongoing monitoring of compliance with BBBEE requirements, by performing reviews and monitoring audits on licensees
- FIC inspections on licensees.
FINANCE
Providing financial and administrative support services.
GAMING CONTROL
Ensuring technical compliance of gaming devices to legislation.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Promoting and maintaining industrial relations.
The objective of the human resources department is to support the GGB’s vision to be a leading and innovative regulator in the gambling industry. The department provides the following services:
- Talent development and performance management
- Talent planning, organizational development and central resourcing
- Employee rewards and benefits
- Payroll and policy development
- Human resources information management systems
- Employee relations and transformation
- Employee wellness
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Developing, maintaining and supporting management information systems.
LEGAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
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Rendering of legal and secretarial services of the Board as well as investigation of violations of gambling legislation.
The Legal unit has two sub units namely Legal Support and Law Enforcement. The Legal Support provides legal advice, litigation, contract management services as well as ensuring that the Board complies with all the acts and regulations. It also helps all internal department on issues of legal compliance and matters of legal nature and also conducts annual reviews of gambling legislation as well as addressing request for information in terms of PAIA & PAJA.
Legal ensures that the Board complies with al relevant legislation by conducting legal compliance audit from time to time.
The law enforcement unit mainly deals with alleged non-compliance of licensees, gambling disputes and illegal gambling as well as assisting law enforcement agencies with eradication of illegal gambling.
LICENSING AND INVESTIGATIONS
Receiving and processing applications.
The licensing of natural and juristic persons in relation to gambling ensures that these people are eligible in accordance with the provisions of the Gauteng Gambling Act, 1995 and the National Gambling Act, 2004. Employees in low-risk areas (e.g. food and beverage and cleaning) of the licensee are not required to be licensed.
- Gambling facilities
- Employee registrations
- Equipment registration
- Manufacturers, supplier and maintenance providers
- Amusement facilities
- Third party suitability
SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The SED Unit is geared at initiating activities that will conduct and manage gambling in a socially responsible manner through interventions of public awareness campaigns on responsible gambling and minimization of incidents of problem gambling. Responsible Gambling is a crucial programme for the Gauteng Gamblign Board operations; and has the responsibility of ensuring that the identified programmes are successfully implemented in order to promote responsible gambling awareness and prevention programmes.
This will lead to a well-regulated gambling and betting industry that generates revenue to support the socio-economic development programmes for sustainable livelihoods and developed citizenry in the Province through awareness of responsible gambling; Our Sports Fund and Corporate Social Investment initiatives consists of collaborative approach to socio-economic development in favor of disadvantaged communities.
Gambling in South Africa has been heavily restricted since 1673, with South Africa's Gambling Act of 1965 officially banning all forms of gambling except betting on horse racing which existed as a sporting activity.
In the late 1970s casinos started operating in the bantustans (the nominally independent areas called homelands) of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda. Only native South Africans lived there and most citizens couldn't access those gaming establishments. By 1995 an estimated 2000 illegal casinos were believed to be operating within the country. In 1994, when the new democratic government came to power, all forms of gambling were legalised. In 1996 the National Gambling Act instituted a system of licensed casinos and a single national lottery. Horse racing was also proclaimed gambling activity.[1]
The National Gambling Act of 1996 made provisions for the regulation of gambling activities and promotion of uniform norms and standards in relation to gambling throughout the country. It gave definitions to different gambling notions, described how the 40 gambling licenses should be distributed among the provinces and provided information on liability. It also established the National Gambling Board, an organisation responsible for the supervision and regulation of the gambling industry. This change in legislation saw the establishment of legal casinos, a national lottery and other forms of gaming.[2]
In 2004, another National Gambling Act repealed the Act of 1996. And in 2008 The National Gambling Amendment Act was introduced.
Prevalence and value[edit]
According to the 2006 study the most popular forms of gambling in South Africa were the National Lottery (96.9% participation), slot machines (27.7% participation), scratchcards (22.7% participation), charity jackpot competitions (11.6% participation) and horse racing betting (11.5% participation). 8.3% of respondents said they have never gambled and a further 5.5% characterised themselves as occasional game players with no regular forms of gambling.[3]
In the 2006/2007 financial year licensed gross gambling revenue as monitored by the National Gambling Board totalled R13.52 billion, from R11.4 billion the previous year. 86.2 percent of that revenue was derived in casinos.[4] In the same period the Board reported a total of 455 raids on and closures of presumed illegal gambling operations.[5]
South Africa’s gambling revenues are projected to rise to R30 billion in 2019, according to a new report. The South African gambling industry – including casinos, sports betting, the National Lottery, limited payout machines and bingo – achieved gross gambling revenue of R26.3bn in 2016.
Types of gambling[edit]
South African National Lottery[edit]
The South African National Lottery was established in 2000 and has been in continuous operation since, apart from a suspension between April 2007 and October 2007. In its last year of operation transaction values totalled R3.972 billion, with an average of five million transactions per week, making it the most popular form of gambling in South Africa. South Africa known as one of the largest countries participate in UK49s lottery draw operated by Ladbrokes Coral.
Gambling revenue from the National Lottery is projected to increase to R2.33 billion in 2019.[6]
Casinos[edit]
Casinos operate in all metropolitan areas in South Africa. With the largest being the Rio Casino Resort, which is also the largest casino in Africa and the fifth-largest casino in the world.[citation needed] Tsogo Sun Montecasino, also located in Johannesburg, is another of South Africa's largest casinos.
Horse racing[edit]
On-track betting on horse races was the only legal form of gambling in South African until 1996. Due to its complexity and the difficulty of attracting new players it did not effectively compete with the newly introduced National Lottery and casino games.[7]
Betting on horse races is controlled by Saftote and operated by Gold Circle in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape and by Phumelela in the remainder of the country.[8]
Online gambling[edit]
Licensed gambling sites[edit]
Each of South Africa's nine provinces has a gambling and racing board. To offer online betting bookies must be licensed by one of these boards. Currently the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board (WCGRB) is largest provider of online bookmaker licenses.[9] South Africa residents can use these online betting sites legally. For bets involving horse racing 6% is deducted from winning to cover VAT. As of May 2012, no additional tax is charged to recreational bettors, and recreational gambling winnings are not considered income for income tax purposes.[10]
Online gaming laws[edit]
The National Gambling Act 2004 prohibited both offering interactive gambling services and engaging in interactive games (games on the Internet).[11] This rule applies to all online operators, licensed in any jurisdiction. It's however important to note interactive gambling relates specifically to games such as casino, poker and bingo. Online sports betting, online horse race betting and the business of bookmaking is lawful in South Africa, provided that the person conducting such business holds the necessary provincial bookmaker's licence(s), or is using a website with proper licence(s).
The National Gambling Amendment Act of 2008 that was published in July 2008 was meant to be an attempt to legalise interactive gambling in the country and make provisions for the regulation of this market. The Amendment Act was actively confronted by the interested parties (land-based gambling houses and anti-money laundering authorities). For this reason, the Act hasn't come into power yet.
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On 20 August 2010 even online gambling offered through servers located outside the country was banned in South Africa. This was the result of the North Gauteng High Court judgement on the jurisdiction of online gambling transactions in the country. Consequently, both offering gambling services online and gambling online became illegal. The only exceptions are province licensed horse racing and online sports betting. Casino sites, individuals, internet service providers and banks that process payments for online gamblers are subject to a fine of R 10 million or 10 years of imprisonment, or both. Mass media channels that transmit or facilitate advertisement of online gambling services (TV and radio, newspapers and magazines, outdoor advertising agencies) are also to be held liable.[12]
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The South African Department of Trade and Industry also suggested to consider penny auctions a type of online gambling and illegalise them. The National Gambling Amendment Act of 2008 may come into force after an appeal to a high court ruling against 'interactive gambling' is heard.[13]
References[edit]
- ^Stephen P. Rule; Terezinha Da Silva; Chris Sibanyoni (2000). The Social Impact of Gambling in South Africa. HSRC Press. p. 8. ISBN0-7969-1971-2.
- ^National Gambling Act, 1996 [No. 33 of 1996] – G 17307
- ^'Problem Gambling Prevalence Study 2006'(PDF). National Responsible Gambling Programme. Archived from the original(PDF) on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^'National gambling statistics for the financial year ending 31 March 2007'. National Gambling Board. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^'Illegal Gambling statistics for the financial year ending 31 March 2006'. National Gambling Board. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^'How much is the South African gambling market worth?'. www.bettinggods.com. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^'Speech by Thibedi Majake (CEO of the National Gambling Board) at the 2006 national convention of Racing South Africa'. Racing South Africa. Retrieved 22 September 2008.[dead link]
- ^'Sport: Horse racing in South Africa'. SouthAfrica.info. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^WCGRB Licensed Betting Sites
- ^Legal South Africa Betting Sites
- ^'Online Gambling Remains Unlawful in South Africa'. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
- ^Online Gambling Banned in Africa
- ^Online Gambling in SA: Is It Legal?