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When Betting Slips Replace Lunchbox Notes
When Teenagers Build Betting Bots for Fun
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- February 10, 2025
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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…
- Winners
- February 9, 2025
- 294 views
Profiles of Major Lottery Winners and Their Stories
For millions of people around the world, playing the lottery is more than a weekly ritual, it’s a ticket to the dream. The dream of never worrying about bills again.…
- News
- February 8, 2025
- 208 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…
- News
- February 4, 2025
- 257 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.…
- News
- February 2, 2025
- 205 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…
- News
- January 31, 2025
- 176 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…
- News
- January 28, 2025
- 222 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.…
- News
- January 25, 2025
- 223 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…
- News
- January 25, 2025
- 265 views
Prop Bets Explained, How to Capitalise on Niche Betting Markets
In the ever-expanding world of sports betting, punters are no longer confined to betting simply on who wins or loses. Enter proposition bets, better known as prop bets, which let…
- News
- January 24, 2025
- 270 views
How EBTs Became the Casino Floor’s Hidden Stars
I still recall my first time stepping into a South African casino that had recently installed a line of gleaming EBTs (Electronic Bingo Terminals) between the familiar rows of slot…