A "notice of intention" to introduce the National Gambling Amendment Bill in South Africa has been issued by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies.
The draft bill will change the National Gambling Board to the National Gambling Regulator. It will also transfer the regulation of bets on the national lottery, foreign lotteries, lottery results and sports pools to the National Lotteries Commission.
At the same time it will ban dog racing and bets on dog racing and toughen up the regulation of casinos and limited payout machines and bingo. Other changes will see greater black empowerment, recognise self-regulation in horse-racing, impose restrictions on gambling advertising, regulate electronic bingo machines and increase the powers of gambling inspectors.
