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Things in the South African casino industry are slowly picking up. Some of the country’s most popular properties are offering promotions to encourage their customers to return after a tough period of lockdowns and other Covid-19 restrictions.

Montecasino is among the casinos intent on giving players the opportunity to enjoy a bumper month. The Gauteng-based casino from the Tsogo Sun Gaming group has rolled out two promotions this month : Thursday Bonus Jackpots & Saturday Bonus Jackpots.

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This week, the Cape Business News revisited the question about a second brick-and-mortar casino for Cape Town. In the February 9th article entitled Chips Down for Casinos, it was discussed how gaming companies such as Sun International and Tsogo Sun Gaming have been so negatively impacted by the pandemic, that the fate of the second casino has been all but forgotten in the past year.

Currently, Sun International enjoys a monopoly on the Mother City’s casino market through its GrandWest property. Although GrandWest’s exclusivity arrangement ended over 7 years ago, Sun International is still the sole casino operator in the city. Last year, the Western Cape 20th Gambling and Racing Amendment Bill and the Western Cape 21st Gambling and Racing Amendment Bill were published. They called for the relocation of an “outlying casino license”. If they are enacted, Sun International’s exclusivity zone in Cape Town will be reduced from 75km to 25 km.

SA’s leading gaming and hospitality group will be joining Global Hotel Alliance from the middle of the year and participate in its international loyalty brand, DISCOVERY.

Sun International, South Africa’s leading gaming and hospitality group announced this week that it will be joining up with Global Hotel Alliance and participate in its DISCOVERY loyaltyprogramme. By doing so, Sun International will gain access to a global customer base of 17 million new members.

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And as a nod to Valentines’ Day month, the online casino hasn’t forgotten to send lots of love to its players in the form of free spins on Sweet 16 slot game.

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) Africa, has certified the virtual sports and betting supplier, Golden Race to operate in South Africa. The certification grants Golden Race B2B provider status, and with that the right to roll out its V4 solution and offer its online products and solutions in the SA gambling market. As per a tweet sent by Golden Race on social media:

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The patron headed to GrandWest Casino to try her luck on the slots as she does on a regular basis, and although she usually plays Sirens and Pompeii slots, this time around she was drawn to Mighty Cash, a game that involves Chinese dragons.The player doesn’t know what compelled her to try the games out, other than saying: “There are only three of these machines at GrandWest all lined up next to each other. They looked interesting, so I decided to play one of them.”

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Gauteng’s premier casino and entertainment complex, MonteCasino announced that due to the revised Covid-19 regulations, its famous Anyone Can Win a Ferrari promotion has been postponed until further notice. Originally, MonteCasino announced that it had extended the promotion to give players more time to accumulate receipts, and it also threw in an additional R1.6 million in prizes. Each prize packet is an exclusive Italian package, including three sporty Fiat Abarths, Ferrari merchandise and a MonteCasinoexperience worth R55,000 each.

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South African players will be thrilled to learn that one of their favourite online casino software groups, NetEnt, is set to launch a sequel of one of its most popular slots, Fruit Shop. Fruit Shop Megaways willto be the first 2021 game launch for NetEnt, and should be appearing at partner online casinos any day now. A full decade after the Swedish-based software group released the original Fruit Shop, it has now been able to give it a fabulous fresh new twist, thanks to the addition of Big Time Gaming’s patented Megaways payout mechanic.

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The British games provider, Betsson is no stranger to the African gambling market. The group has set up several brands in the African market, including – most recently - Betsafe in Kenya. Recently, Betsson announced that it had inked a deal with Incentive Games to provide a suite of fantastic titles to Betsafe. Incentive Games is known for its free customer acquisition games and has created African-focused virtual games and jackpots.

The Incentive Games titles are also especially suited to the African market – where players are more drawn to sports-focused products – an area in where the group specializes.

Fans of Playtech’s extraordinary Age of the Gods slots series will be thrilled to learn that the group is set to launch a new game this month. There is no official release date for Age of the Gods: Book of Oracle just yet, but rumour has it that it will go live at Playtech-powered online casinos sometime in January. We know that this is another myth and legend-themed slot game that fits right in with Playtech’s Age of the Gods series. It was created by Ash Gaming, Playtech’s games developing studio and is the latest in the series.

Last month, Evolution Gaming announced the final integration of the NetEnt brand into its portfolio, under the terms of a $2.3 billion acquisition deal, leading to NetEnt delisting its B-shares from the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. As part of the restructuring of the business within the development of slots games and the closure of NetEnt’s Live Dealer games, Evolution said that it would be laying off some of NetEnt’s workers.

As soon as the takeover was completed, employees at the Live Dealer studio in Qormi were sent home. This came as a shock to many, considering that just three months ago, NetEnt committed to expanding its Live Casino operations, and trainees were still being brought it. However, one morning in December, employees were called in for a meeting with Evolution management and told that they were being let go. There was no representative of NetEnt present at the meeting.

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January 4, 2021 Johannesburg, South Africa (Press Release) -- Encouraging us to help make the world a better place in 2021, South Africa's Springbok Casino is recommending New Year's Resolutions that will have a positive impact. After the awful year that we'd love to forget about, the South African online casino has suggestions that range from spending more time with family to adopting a pet.

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Due to the spiraling numbers of COVID-19 cases, the South African government has been forced to amend its lockdown regulations once more. For the moment, South African casinos are allowed to remain open, but they have had to curb the number of visitors. Many fear that it’s only a matter of time that places of entertainment will need to shut down altogether, if the numbers continue to rise.

Just before the Christmas holidays, co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma signed the amended regulations which were published in the Government Gazette. On December 28th, President Cyril Ramaphosatightened these regulations even further, putting South African in level 3 lockdown once more, until January 15th.

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