Provincial Gambling Boards: Please follow the links to Provincial Gambling Boards. We welcome the Board’s enviable task of balancing two competing interest, namely the demand for gambling products satisfied through licensing and the measures to promote responsible gambling aimed at minimising the negative impact of gambling which accords with the ethos of Gauteng provincial government.

1. Gauteng Provincial Gambling Board Contact

Description

A bookmakers licence is a licence obtained to conduct the business of a bookmaker.

Who can apply?

A person wanting to operate as a bookmaker may apply for a bookmaker licence, with exception to the disqualifying factors made in section 30 of theGauteng Gambling Act, 1995 (Act No. 4 of 1995) .

No person may make an application for a bookmaker licence unless the application is lodged pursuant to, and in accordance with, a notice inviting applications which has been published by the Gauteng Gambling Board in the Provincial Gazette.

Applications are currently closed.

How to apply?

The application must be submitted as follows:

• One (1) original application,
• Two (2) copies of the original application (bound),
• Two (2) public copies of the application marked as such ( with a letter reflecting the excluded confidential information in terms of the Gauteng Gambling Act,
• The application must be advertised accordingly in the provincial gazette and as well as a newspaper circulating in the district in which the premises to which the application is situated.

The application must be submitted in the following format and sequence:

• The application may be submitted in your own reproduction provided that the content is exactly the same as contained herein,
• Any reproduction and all accompaniments must be on standard A4 size paper.

The application must be filed in the following sequence:

1. Section 38 consent application,
2. Copies of advertisements required by Section 20 of the Act (in the format as attached hereto as Annexure A),
3. Copy of legal instruments giving effect to the acquisition of interest,
4. Relevant declaration and release authorisation by the applicant; and, if a company, the required personal declarations, and personal release authorisations relevant to the applicant company only,
5. Company declarations and release authorisations for companies together with the required personal declarations and release authorisations in respect thereof.

The following should accompany this application:

1. Company Declaration and Company Release Authorisation
2. Personal Declaration and Personal Release Authorisation.

The following should accompany this declaration:

1. Original application
2. Copy of original application
3. Original fingerprints (Elicit Activity Report) – Police clearance certificate/ Criminal Record Check
4. Copy of Identity Document or Passport certified by SAPS
5. Copy of Work Permit and Criminal Clearance in respect of foreign applicants
6. Copies of Tax Returns (excluding supporting schedules) and the assessments of the individual for the most recent three years
7. Copies of the VAT Returns and assessments if applicable of the individual
8. Two recent passport- sized photographs signed and dated at the back by the individual

NOTE: The Board may in writing require additional information during the investigation process

Costs

Application fee: R2 780 (key employee) and R690 (other),

Licence fee: R14 520

Legislation

Relevant links

South African Responsible Gambling Foundation ​

For the overwhelming majority of people, gambling is a form of recreational entertainment. However, for a small portion of people, excessive gambling may potentially become a problem, and in some instances, may result in damaging compulsive addictive behaviour.

Tsogo Sun Gaming (“the Company”) supports responsible gambling and further recognizes the need for the protection of minors from gambling. Accordingly, the Company’s casinos, amongst other gambling establishments, contribute significantly towards the funding of the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation (SARGF) which makes it possible for free services to be made available to persons who have gambling problems or to those who are affected by problem gambling.

In addition, the Company, through its casinos, offers a self-exclusion programme (“the Programme”) to assist persons who may have gambling problems. Its self-exclusion programme supplements the SARGF and it further promotes the values, objectives and purpose of the SARGF.

Gauteng Provincial Gambling Board Contact

The Company also remains committed to taking reasonable and practical steps that to promote responsible gambling within the Group.