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The SA gambling site that sent influencers to a pre-school
5 November, 2026
South Africa’s snowballing gambling epidemic has little by way of regulation standing in its way but one thing the National Gambling Act does expressly prohibit is marketing to children.
FEATURED SERIES: DEADLY WATER
Do we know the real story behind the collapse of the R291-million Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant project? Was the infamous tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi conned by his now-deceased business partner, as he has always claimed? Opinions remain divided on CMS Water boss Rudolf Schoeman Jnr – some see him as a maverick, others “the biggest bullshitter” they’d ever met. AmaBhungane went digging and found a trail of destruction across four provinces and a billion rand’s worth of critical infrastructure projects incomplete. Deadly Water is amaBhungane’s first podcast, told by the journalists who did the digging.
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