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On the international front in the "war against online casinos", news about South Africa gets largely left out of the mix. Well, no longer. In what newspapers are describing as the toughest anti-online gambling "blitz" ever seen in South Africa, police in the Eastern Cape province in coordination with the Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board raided a location in Port Elizabeth, at Greenacres. The raid was conducted by police with the organized crime unit, acting on a request from the ECGB. In the raid, twenty five computers, along with some other gambling equipment worth around 100,000 South African Rand, were confiscated in the midday sweep last week.

"It was established that illegal gambling was conducted on a large scale and on a daily basis," Police Superintendent Johann van Greunen reported. "The computers were being used for online casino gambling despite warnings by the local gambling board to online gamblers about the illegality of this type of gambling." The raids represent a step up from the actions of other countries regarding online casinos gambling. Even though countries like the United States consider online casinos gambling to be illegal, they rarely take action that is publicized as much as this case in South Africa has been.

The South African police raid can be seen as a model by governments which would like to stamp out online casinos gambling rather than legalize it. Even so, there are enough proponents in countries around the world for online casinos that sooner or later the sheer numbers of casinos will overwhelm even the greatest and most efficient of police forces may not be able to stem the tide of online casinos growth and popularity amongst the resident populations in countries which allow some forms of gambling but exclude as possibly significant a revenue and tax provider as online casinos gambling could be.