How Government Funded South Africa’s Gambling Addiction | Makashule Gana | Politically Aweh

Online gambling in South Africa did not grow. It exploded. And the man shouting loudest about it in Parliament also happens to be chairing the committee looking into the President.

Host KG Mokgadi sits down with RISE Mzansi MP Makashule Gana, 26 years in politics, chairperson of the parliamentary committee investigating President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the most persistent voice in Parliament on gambling reform. On the committee he gives KG almost nothing, just that there are rules and they will be followed. On gambling he holds nothing back.

He explains how online betting turned a weekend outing into a 24 hour casino that lives in your pocket, why provinces undercut each other on gambling tax while the social damage lands somewhere else entirely, and the uncomfortable timing between the explosion of online gambling and the payment of the Covid SRD grant. He also makes the case that sport survived losing tobacco money and will survive losing betting money too.

Along the way: 20 years in the DA, why he left with no regrets, a software testing career he swears he could go back to, and six Comrades marathons that double as thinking time.

Then KG makes him rank breakfast cereals. The chairperson holds the line.

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