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- February 15, 2025
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Private Wins and Public Losses in South African Betting
In a country where conversations about money tend to happen in hushed tones or not at all, the glow of a mobile screen at midnight tells a louder story. It’s…
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- February 15, 2025
- 331 views
Playing to Forget, How South Africans Use Slots to Silence Grief
There’s something peculiar about the soft hum of a slot machine. It doesn’t demand anything from you. It doesn’t challenge your decisions or interrogate your feelings. It just spins. It…
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- February 14, 2025
- 349 views
South Africa’s Most Mysterious Missing Lottery Wins
There’s a small collection of urban legends in South Africa that don’t quite make the headlines but still get whispered in bars and taxi queues, the stories of lottery jackpots…
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- February 10, 2025
- 316 views
One Last Recharge, How the R10 You Meant for Airtime Becomes Something Else
It starts small. Always does. You’re standing in the queue at the tuck shop or the corner café, thumb hovering over the screen, about to buy R10 airtime because you…
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- February 8, 2025
- 337 views
The TikTok Fortune-Tellers of Tembisa, When Astrology Meets Aviator
It starts with a phone camera, a flick of lip gloss, and a deck of tarot cards pulled from a velvet pouch bought at the China Mall. Behind her, a…
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- February 4, 2025
- 392 views
The Numbers Don’t Lie, But the Dreams Do
Every number has a story, and Sipho would tell you that without hesitation. For the past twelve years, he has played the same five digits in the lotto, never wavering.…
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- February 2, 2025
- 332 views
The Card Cutters, South Africa’s Independent Casino Dealer Schools
It’s just after 8 a.m. on a Wednesday in central Durban. While most of the city is still warming up for the day, taxis pulling into rank, shop shutters creaking…
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- January 31, 2025
- 307 views
How to Lose R500 Without Feeling Like You Spent It
It never feels like R500 in the beginning. That’s the trick. You don’t load R500 all at once. You break it down. You slice it into pieces that don’t look…
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- January 28, 2025
- 353 views
The Rise of Ultra-Private High Rollers in South Africa
Somewhere in Sandton, there’s a private room that very few people know about. It isn’t marked by neon signs or velvet ropes. There’s no thumping music, no bouncers with earpieces.…
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- January 25, 2025
- 347 views
Betting Culture at the Edge of a Digital South Africa
There’s a taxi rank in the middle of Mpumalanga where a man in his sixties still places his bets with a pen, on paper, in neat handwriting. No app. No…
