By The Weekly Edge desk ·
iGaming Business reported that SABA’s chief executive said concrete legislative progress against illegal offshore gambling had not emerged. The comments came three weeks after the South African trade body’s earlier intervention.
The trade body’s campaign has yet to produce the legislative movement described in the report.
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