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Months have passed since local online casino’s appealed against new laws to ban South African’s from gambling online and finally the trial has passed. On August 23, 2011, it was announced in an Appeal Court in Bloemfontein that the appeal has been denied.

With immediate effect most casino enterprises will be closing their doors to players in the South African market. So far this includes Piggs Peak Casino, Piggs Peak Poker, Piggs Peak Bingo and Volcanic Gold Casino.

There are casino’s that are still operating, such as Silver Sands Casino, which continues along strongly and many of the local casino’s will still trade, but only to International audiences. If you are an online gambler, my advice would be to withdrawal the funds you have in your account before it’s too late and if you’re desperate to gamble, head on over to Silver Sands, where the doors are still open. But remember, it is YOUR responsibility.

I think it’s a great shame, you can still walk into a casino if you need to gamble, so it’s not as though they’ve banned it on- and offline. Anyway, it’s not up to me, I just think the wrong decision has been made, in fact, like PayPal coming to South Africa, if the government was more involved, they’d probably realize that they could have made a boatload of money.

What is your view?

Online gambling has had some shady grounds for the past year or so, last year we watched the giants, Piggs Peak, Silver Sands Casino and others take their websites offline whilst a court hearing was underway.

The hearing didn’t decide in full what was to happen and several of the casino’s opened up again for usual usage. Many casino’s run their money and processes through places like Swaziland, where rules and regulations are different to that of South Africa’s, but this doesn’t stop bans on South African’s being able to use their credit cards to load up money.

Piggs Peak Casino has contacted the Reserve Bank to ask that the block on credit cards be put on hold whilst proper discussions around why Internet banking should not be banned in South Africa.

The main reason for online gambling to be banned is because it is said that gambling has a socio-economic effect on families. I don’t disagree with this, but then offline casino’s such as Grand West should be shut down too, surely?

As always, the gambling space remains highly interesting!

A few months ago, the online casino industry went a little crazy when a law was passed that banned online gambling in South Africa. All of the major casino websites went offline for a week or so, but were back up again when the law went into discussion phase.

Here are some links:

• Silver Sands Casino closes down
• Piggs Peak Casino closes down

It wasn’t long after this that is was said that online gambling was to be legalised. So, very much up and down as you can imagine.

Anyway, African Palace Casino was involved in all of this of course, but they’ve gone really dark lately and are not paying out players nor affiliates. Despite sending emails, making calls and doing anything possible to get hold of them, dead ends are hit each time!

A quick Google search shows that hundreds of other people are complaining!

Be warned, don’t use African Palace Casino!

Online gambling will be legalised soon, the executive director of the National Responsible Gambling Programme, Peter Collins, predicts. A Sake24 report quotes Collins as saying the government has been discussing online gambling activities and its dangers for a long time.

“The reality is that people cannot be forced to refrain from these gambling activities.”

According to Collins, a review commission is currently considering existing gambling legislation and he expects it to recommend the legalisation of online gambling.

Silver Sands Casino has launched a new campaign, which is going to save you a bundle of money. If you make a deposit between Wednesday 22nd September and Wednesday 29th September, you’ll get back 100% deposit up to R1000.

So basically you’re getting R1000 free at the end of the day!

Get on over to Silver Sands Casino and get depositing!

This whole online gambling ban in South Africa is starting to get really serious. First Piggs Peak Casino shut down and now Silver Sands Casino has joined in.

Just like Piggs Peak Casino, Silver Sands Casino will no longer be offering their games to South Africans. If you have an account, it will remain accessible and you’ll be able to withdrawl any funds owed to you by emailing support@silversandscasino.com

I honestly didn’t think it would all happen this quickly, but clearly it is. I wonder if there’s a chance in the court’s ruling being changed or anything.

Does anyone know?

With the whole ban on online gambling in South Africa, online casino’s are starting to close down, the latest bring Piggs Peak Casino.

They recently lost their application in the Pretoria High Court regardling the legality of South Africans playing on their Swaziland licensed internet casino. From now on, Piggs Peak Casino will no longer be offering South Africans access to their system.

This lock down happens from midnight tonight, until further notice. Any players who have balances on their accounts, need not worry, your money is safe and if you need to withdraw it, you can do so by emailing support@piggspeak.com and they will process it.

It’s sad to see online casino’s shutting down for South Africans, I’m sure that there could have been a better way to resolve this matter, but alas, the decisions not up to me.

We all know the World Series of Poker (WSOP), just imagine how amazing it would be to attend it, even if it’s an African one? I couldn’t think of anything more exciting! Silver Sands Casino is bringing us online satellites, with seats valued at $5000. The event will commence at the Emerald Casino Resort on the 27th October 2010 and will finish on the 31st October 2010.

Here are some specifics:

• Limited number of seats
• Freeze out tournament
• 60 min blind levels
• Blinds start at 50/100
  
• 40000 starting chips

For more info contact Mary on 0827865383 or via email: mary@trexmarketing.co.za