Gambling tycoons are quick to downplay these harms. They boast of the jobs they create and the initiatives they fund—a tactic lifted straight from yesterday’s tobacco companies, who justified social harm with fig leaves of charity
Funders are concerned about the fragmented opposition but party leaders are adamant that they and not donors are driving the process
Mashaba’s one-year-old party comes in second behind the ANC’s income, but ahead of the DA