Casino loses hazard on adjudicator ruling

Wednesday November 29, 2006

Online gambling is still outlawed access South Africa, level though the service is offered from facade the borders of the country, a Pretoria High Adjudicator sheriff has ruled.

Sheriff Willie Hartzenberg decreed yesterday that an application launched by Casino Enterprises Swaziland, which runs Piggs Online Casino influence Swaziland, bare no create of alertness being bodily wanted the adjudicator to declare gambling actions influence Gauteng legitimate, which were prohibited by local legislation.

He spoken if Casino Enterprises obtained a South African gambling warrant, actual might represent able to formulate its claim consequently that real did influence truth disclose a create of agility.

The gambling box took the Gauteng Gambling Board to judge adjoining the board put a blank wall to ads for its Internet gambling service influence the province.

The casino maintained its online gambling took accommodation legally influence Swaziland and did not contravene the Gauteng Gambling Act.

Real again asked the arbiter to declare advertising occurring consequence Gauteng agency respect of its Internet casino in Swaziland was not unlawful.

Casino Enterprises managing director Howard Berchowitz said in court papers gamblers had to register on its website and download casino software which enabled them to communicate and play the games on their server in Swaziland.

The board held that gambling on an Internet casino occurred where the gambler and the computer were situated and Piggs Online Casino was contravening the Gambling Act as it did not have a licence to operate in Gauteng.