Licensed South African bookmakers have called on banks and payment providers to block transactions to “illegal” offshore gambling platforms, which they claim now account for nearly two-thirds of all online betting activity in the country. The South African Bookmakers Association (Saba) has said in a new report it commissioned from global gaming research firm YieldSec…
When a 45-second video of reality star Taylor Frankie Paul hurling metal barstools at her ex-boyfriend during a 2023 altercation surfaced just days before her season of “The Bachelorette” was set to premier on ABC, the fallout was swift. ABC said it wouldn’t air the show. Some cast members from both “The Secret Lives of…
The world’s online population rose by more than 240 million people in 2025, bringing the total number of Internet users to six billion, according to the latest Facts and Figures 2025 report released by the International Telecommunication Union, ITU. The report shows that about three-quarters of the global population are now online, up from 5.8…
Harold van Graan, chief revenue officer, Solid8 Technologies. Let’s kick off with an obvious question, namely: what is online fraud? Fraud is variously defined as a deception or misrepresentation; a perversion of truth to convince someone to part with something of value or surrender a legal right. Online fraud encompasses both financial fraud and identity…
As a boom in online gambling across Africa gathers pace, governments are hiking taxes to contain addiction risks and fill depleted state coffers. In by far the biggest market, South Africa, the industry is pushing back. Once a niche activity, gambling has exploded across the continent as a result of easily available online betting accounts….
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who recently lost a primary to a more conservative challenger, said Sunday that while he believes misinformation played into his loss, American voters need to pay better attention to the truth. “So the lesson to be learned is like, you’ve got to get the truth out,” Crenshaw said on “Face the Nation with…
The National Gambling Board (NGB) has reiterated that online gambling remains unlawful in South Africa and has issued a formal notice to all provincial licensing authorities to this effect. It provides guidance on compliance obligations in respect of remote gambling infrastructure and applicable technical standards. The board said on Friday that interactive and remote gambling…
Unlike traditional Russian propaganda outlets like media companies RT and Sputnik, which the West swiftly sanctioned at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, such campaigns “allow for a level of… plausible deniability that complicates counter-influence efforts”, said Sophie Williams-Dunning, a cyber and tech researcher at the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber The department of home affairs plans to shut down all tourist visa processing at South African missions abroad, minister Leon Schreiber has announced, with all applications to be routed instead through the department’s Electronic Travel Authorisation system. Speaking at the release of a Special Investigating Unit interim report on Monday,…
