or emphasizing the award winning offer is available worldwide. every language level. learning gem and has a $1000000000.00 industry, praying on young african, while enriching multinational government spiteful control of this lucrative trade that promises millions. but instead deliveries dec. i was because they messed up my heart. in fact, i know one day they say when is know when to quit. but sports betting is taking over africa and leasing everyone delta me in rush or addiction. i don't know what you do with your money, but i'm a pretty frugal person. so i've only played the lottery ones and never done sports

betting. sports betting is getting more and more popular on the continental, especially online. we have increasing internet connectivity, mobile payment options, and smartphones becoming more available. so all it takes is a few clicks and you're hooked. welcome to the 77 percent. the show for africa's majority be under $35.00. this time with me. your host, let's show here is what we have for you today are lively is truth, debate income policy is uganda, and the few of the pros and cons of online gambling our correspondence reveal house sports betting has exploded across africa. and why regulation is a double edged sword. and finally, we find a champion in an unusual place and for pro is with cube, has changed a lot across africa. many young people believe sports betting is

a quick fix to their money problems. in nigeria alone, there are over a 100 bidding companies making millions or what you're cool is, is just one of many nigerians draining the bank accounts in the hope of one day hitting the jackpot. 24 year olds and that you and get your quote. is it is addicted to, but he just can't help himself. easy . not doing genius to come to school. get you cool was introduce good team player, friend. and do you mind if i school, when i go, i suppose oscar, who stuff is 500 and best and you just bought it. i mean less than $40.00 a month. as a housekeeper kit. you could spend slavishly on betting each week in just 4 years. he has poured over a $1000.00 into his betting habit that will wins,

but mostly losses. that'd be guessed loss. you know, almost what off of to 1000. yeah. these was like, and i, i know that myself that i know get myself dealt with like shots. i was getting like from the way like what are your thoughts getting hold so i would like was being always and when i went to like my mom was talking to me, i would like. what does that mean to me? one moment time i, i, brittany, says i would like to do it. i like 5 minutes. you know, do my wizard. she doesn't, i why do onto cries, you know, nice. it's already all set to myself. after leaving the vetting sho, get you cool. immediately hits home to stop fixing online using his smartphone. critics. in that julie, i have complained about the predictability practices of betting companies, and the lack of supports for id. in that junior, it's estimated that over 60000000 people gamble, many are young that you and seeking to overcome a bottom, unemployment and poverty. and believe the betting is

a quick fix solution to them money problems. what they don't know or more precisely don't want to know is that the game is fixed and they can never read the book as always. we as they also have others too. but the book you guys taking is on commission anyway. and every time you run out last is miles about a few times when you, when it was a small portion of the that was the rest of the chunk of them. i've lost legal source events or logical. i'd be more worried about detect, expecting companies in the do a used to attract customers to save these businesses open. employ social media influence is to encourage company they present themselves as betting and sharpen use, claiming to have correct the coach to profitable dumpling. and there's a guy called me all of this cartridge is trending, and it has an awful lot of the people, i mean, the guy. so we're gonna be 1800000000 now. yes. wow. so i mean, you know the time maybe in couple of every month because the guy want

a lot for the new goes on with that $155.00 me that was on the come on man. how are you really one of those. i know the guy moses the those is there. okay, good no problem. but i believe it's less as being used so many police do use you one day you're told to just try one to 1000. there are you try are you when? wow. well, i think you're celebrated. i love you, we dropped off. you, you put all you want me then i do. i never moved on. i got your duck, i no longer will just be your account for your office alone, man. i'm going through what i'm talking about for the team is growing exponentially . we over a $115.00 companies operating in nigeria to may be profitable. the local regulation and taxation has increasing numbers of young people throwing the hot on money into a blossom less. now here's the statistic that blew me

away just in 2022. the global sports betting market was worth $83000000000.00 us dollars and the sector is projected to grow immensely. let's head to the venom, capital kampala to find out what's driving people to spend. so much of their own money on a game of chance are calling it is kim, i need talk to young ugandans about their views on sports bidding. and let me tell you the street debate is on via the hello and welcome back to the 77 percent. strict debate this week, we are in the balance of full capital of uganda compiler. now just sitting as little with what people here called betting or gambling houses. so today we want to find out from the young people here is going to bring a net positive or negative for this society. and i want to begin with my friend chris here because i have, we were speaking. and despite the fact that here in component of the legal age for

betting is 25 probably the highest in the world. you 1st came into contact with gambling. when he was the 17. do you remember that 1st i was given a fusion? yeah. uh, base school fees at school. so i said if i bought my 400000 shootings um with a good and maybe you know, i lost that for sure. i did it. but you know, with studies. well, yeah. so that's all i can stop on. and i was a little bit to go out. you know, how does it a little bit to go? i don't go way back to bed. okay, so let me speak to rebecca here for a 2nd because you're not quite a season, but uh as, as chris is telling me a little bit about your relationship with sports betting and how you got introduced suite that was just influenced by afraid twain for basing because he's i would beta chevy. he's addicted, phased his phone. he just wrote the money to me off to then he told me that to me one sunday. okay, let me hear from the gentleman here. what's your experience be like, are you coming to the betting or you used to?

there is that spirit of addiction. most of the big thing companies that begin at low wage, they use hub that you got in them. that when i put this one so that i can, i can get like 20000000 within it. mean that to me not always. second, there is something about to that to convince to even though the visual mind there is just to be done to, to you, i need to get more. okay. so you're calling it a series, the tells you i have to do. you think that's addiction? i think it's that diction. yeah. yeah. all right. uh let me hear from you catch me because i know that you actually actively involved in the industry. you work for a betting agency and you what was the best thing. so what's your experience? i see people coming reported to them, i'm sorry be they're like, wow, why not to be know there yourself. one was used to explore on rage 202 days. then he won $100.00 and then the but the bad part of it. it's like when you get that money, you'll be like, let me put the book. then you double. i people that these are,

did you end up losing him? so what catherine is describing is very familiar to about 50 percent of the youth in this country who will actually pulled like 0 pulling 2021. and that's the number of people who said that the active you, betsy, know, this number might come as a surprise to many people. but what do you say that these appropriate because bending on its own, it's a past same, it's existed for millennia. but why are we talking about it? yeah, and you're going to hook you up. i think this debate does not happen in a vacuum. there is a little unemployment, but how did we get to a point where gambling is a reliable source of income? and i see that knowing it's very ironic it, it does become such indeed and the other was just to imply that if people don't know just because of course, what does they also pull but those just as the ones. but she has mentioned that someone can be able to inject the minimal amount of money and they can get the west exorbitant amount of money that the reason for them to get back. ok. so let me talk

to somebody who said they would never actually be better because they're still fearful they might fall into an addiction. patricia talk to me in that, so say add to the pursuit betting us anymore or seeing they see it as a bad thing. they because it does, it poll bids to dispute substrate because most people, but they don't walk us through just big for someone to give you. like when can you go and invest people bits as soon as the mirroring displaying, they are unemployed. okay, let me, let me speak to the better. yeah. you've been called in disappoint unemployed. an ethical to some degree. is this through? no, he said, by the way, would you agree that the acceptability is really not that up to the i? i don't think they can use our crime and they don't see as the more because eliza societies, we african up turns the african parents if i explained to us, do she want enough time because she's used to the african they've style. okay, so does your mom know, you bet, for example, knows she doesn't know. hi,

mom. so what, why do you think you kept it from? how is it this sense of shame attached to your sense of moral? uh yeah, that's by the way. then also i'm going to bring up the way, don't you just save that money instead of trying to what to say, don't mind me about deposit, that'd be a concept that's more money i wanted to be. we actually have a child therapist with us here today. linda, so perhaps you can explain to us what exactly is happening to our brains when you're back think we had from a gentleman. i think he was telling us exactly how he's using qualities something that takes him over on daddy's gold at dixon. i'll break it down as much as a con. i'm going to talk about, don't put me. they'll find me and if feel good home one, it makes you feel good. and you won't be surprised that don't mean that i just special nova we on even when you lose it still the same feeling each changes the chromebook visa of your mind. so the different mean system is rewarding. the

anticipation not the winning or the losing. so play win or lose so long as you will in that's periods you're getting the heat. exactly. what i really want young people to know is that these people have studied the human mind and how it works. and pretty much gets them giving you like those wins that he was talking about to hook you up and i'll tell you hooked. they took cold by your mind. he's like, it was style take over. that's all right. let me ask one of because he actively encourages people to 2 beds. you work with an agency. i think you do a lot of advertisement in the media. do you feel like it's your responsibility to the center? you actually do that? yeah. first of all, uh, i want to talk about the best site of betting we and for me, uh, these people know, living looked like you it, that a week we have someone who is over 100000 dollars in uganda. that is that on the $800.00 fold on $800.00 median, i agree, but this one of how many of course we cannot or be lucky, you would go to school $100.00 students and one or 2 with

a bus. that is the most criminal unit, and i've done that. we kind of told the okay, if we're going to be a regional one, we'd work for you other ones. so let's hear from the brian. do you think that the government needs to put the types of control so that young people, as we said earlier, not putting money down because of what to lose. the government should woods. those going to those talk was younger people, are they how we combined? and then they are still in schools, so they need to be regulated the both of them cutting 3. you cannot open it bidding compound on an account or no, no. and without the national id id before the. so that's why you will activate your account, your id should be starting you up above 50100. okay. what about online gaming and gum? that's what i'm talking about. i do uh the accounts having a company in a bidding company without one right? no not. you must be 25 guys. these people updating you. they are bidding below 25. yes, they are moving to other people's accounts, which is someone that the government cannot control, right?

so there's been some level of regulation and that's what you were talking about. and then we come back to you as adults, because we're also not it's susceptible to addiction. what are the things that people can look out for? if you feel so compelled you lot control the restart odds that you feel, then the 2nd step would be can you control that i, that many bad consequences that are happening. but do you keep us going? it's time to understand that you need till one more thing. i find it very unfortunate that a young population like you've gone to where over 77 percent of the population is below 24 years old. the cost for you gone to would be creativity to, you know, ration, and we us sweeping for a whole generation. we've used the don't want to use the brain. they just want to go the easy way. it's really unfortunate. well, so this whole idea of gambling being that easy way out is really seriously being reinforced. the rain is threatening to pull this part to you, so let me get some concluding remarks from you. we need to understand that it is

the luck, and you cannot be left to $100.00 times midway easily. so it is not about how much of that. how much of sticking going to, how many tvs, what about sticking forbidding ways to do your research? ok, okay. uh, let me hear from the 2 of you. ok, i know for, for much as the regulations are that we really have a big problem when it comes to implementation, regulate this sick to let this the best example as puts the house in order to ensure that you can continue subbing. that would cite ensuring that you can minimize on the adverse effects for the bad side. all right, so let me conclude with you because i think it's important to just to ground this back to reality. i think what one upset is is right. so the best thing in this country is very much legal. the regulations about it, but these are risk, especially when it comes to addiction. so closing for some of these problems going to be solved from the realm of knowledge. we have seen cases where people are dying because of these, so you can stop and still see that it's a good device. yes,

we are losing us to be a surprise, then you are interested in a different place. right at the beginning of this debate, i asked, do you think that's dumpling a betting is a net positive or net negative for you're going to? i want to see, is it good for the country? raise your hands. is it bad for the country? raise your hand. well, it is. i don't know. i don't know how to how to call that, but the audience back home. i think you've seen the i have it within days have you . i'm not sure which is rich, but you take your gamble. thank you all so much for watching the to thank you so much that you do this and everybody who took part in that street debate not didn't do you see how divided opinions are on whether a sports betting is beneficial or not? well, we're not quite done with you. gun dunn's in how gambling has a firm grip on some of them. we talk to 3 men who share their personal stories. and

what i admire about this is that they are not sugar coating anything. i no longer take various pleasant duties as a month. i did the the bread, but i know things like on me. i kind of still pause. i've lost a lot. is it? no, no, i think i can get both of my money buddy, my food thing. so i'm continuing to lose that. so my hot in the, near when they were not i'm a very bad experience. we rates that i was that they messed up like i couldn't imagine now i could call them my month to, to, and i've lost the money. i didn't of i stay here for that. i was really depressed. i wouldn't say bad things completely bad or wrong because it's so sort of income to some people. but if your risk in your mind me, let's say a business,

mind your country scale capital for betsy. no one put some money for you to wait and definitely save up like that. yeah. so it's, uh, it's a business note that means your wage heavy to that. so i'm going to actually give you money for free, even government do. so if it gets out of money from those companies, it's small or big. you've got to say that it's a budget and you'll get them, but things like, what would you go too much? does a psychological beats out the way that you could only be so you look on major, do we do with disabled or do we do the, do we need the money? do we need do a mental health. so it's, you've got to strike a balance between those 2 because of you have to be in the data type my, which was the money. well, i really appreciate how honest these people from your down to where, because i don't think it's easy to talk openly about a habit that has cost you lots and lots of money. now the last person we heard raised an important point. bedding is big business, a multi $1000000000.00 industry. so how relevant is the sports spitting sector for

individual countries and how quinn is the business, any way of correspondence from south africa and gonna end? can you have some answers? how much do i bet and where do i even start? i have no idea. i'm sure there must be some experience that has around because i'm like me. kenyans are parents, the advocates, i think experts, or at least according to the survey by the research from beautiful they are the african countries that's, that's the most national statistics don't deny it. according to the latest data, about 13 percent of kenyan say that they doubling gambling in 2023 alone, kenyon spent $67000000.00 us dollars, and the most likely people to that's a men between the ages of 18 to 36. whether come in government, it's ray can text money pressing, disclose, usually controversial $1.00 because of the effects that it's gonna have on one financial stability and family income. and then that's the government. he said specifically, online banking companies might be used for money laundry,

or tax evasion. which is why it can you haven't really just clamped down and wants to implement from the laws to regulate the industry too many, but think companies have sprung up across the country, offering young people the chance to cross country and gauge, invest in all year round the free balance of bits, and as i mean for us, the government, we introduced a tax on revenue accrued from back in march to the displeasure of patrons. but there have been many instances of videos, condos, as well in 2021. for example, that was in mid your scandal in gonna win football lesson officials of to football clubs. we investigated by the police for fixing and much of our sports space in some of these plans and will free shows web bond. but the phenomenon press phase now with changes in technology, almost every sport is fair game for book make it in 20. 13 casino has accounted for

the vast majority of gambling revenue in south africa. sports basing was just 7 percent of that total. 10 years later, the picture looks completely different. sports betting accounts for more than 50 percent of the old gambling revenue. events like last year's rugby world cup and the english premier league a major money spent is full supports between agencies. but they're not only interested in the big leaks, many lower division games also end up on the radar. interesting insights from across africa. thank you so much, dan isaac and philip. only think that everyone needs to make their own decision on whether they want to spend their money on sports betting or not. but i also believe that we should have the courage to bet on ourselves. being the superstars, the other is look up to and that's exactly why true key and i go from you've done the did, she's the world class billy a player and an inspiration for so many others. did you note on one of the

continents best to say, is this a woman, some of the gun down some stories to stand out as a testament to the part of the termination on scale is in a get. my name is rookie and i don't have one more minute. i might be coming a champion and i knew that i would become one attempt to you and ricky. and i guess jeremy from a small town beloved play of to offer desktop female athletes. indigo name is nothing short of extraordinary or, you know, part of what it takes a journey of self discovery, the murder into offering it rather seeing us coming from a homeless background and with little education at this coverage. cool as a life change that would provide everything i needed to change. i've got a of the 25 year old pool play, a boost, a cup to beach in story mock by trials, challenges on, on web and passion for the game. had to be done in 2016 when she entered

a wealth of competitive pool playing sets in the states one out in spite and adventure. we know make is that when you made a 99 the, the 1st one has got to be patient out and originally and even when losing the one line, you know, the ones who mostly got on what train, you don't have to lose hope. you've got to keep training or show you mean was that will love it. i'm all enough that time for you to shine. we're come. we're in us to get up from when i was in 2017 with you. i received the invitation to join . you con this national 14. it came us a surprise us this was had tough us. yeah. and what's the last 2 attempt dealerships? i say that they're always negative. people need to ignore them and stay focused on your apple using, you know. but what's the last hope is said she made a come back the following year and catapulted had team to new heights. and then it said that you're wrong because we don't loans at one time i left many games and those 2 years of losses,

i thought about given on know who i was at one tournament. i convinced myself that if i lost i would create to funding. i'm going to and i'm going to revise you for, and obviously you will wait or instead got answered my prayers. i wanted a tournament last week, just you and she kind example, raquel was people tale secure, and you've done this 1st off, it got some to and see if maybe i am waiting for you must to rise and attempt don't lose the championship and give up much of the challenge, find a way of moving forward and yeah, this you look, you went on to showcase the skills by went into holly comp doubles inside. i think i would have done the victory was not just the personal child, but also contributed to teams. you've done this overall success the as in my target is not doing to watch at the junction she asked, she sits the sites on the wall championship. ricky continues, teens by young. ok needs to dream big. yes,

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