Although it would make sense to guard against the damaging effects of gambling, the law isn’t doing much to prevent it
People love to gamble. So much so that when the paternalistic hand of apartheid banned gambling outright in South Africa, it had a difficult conundrum to deal with; allow the Bantustans to build casinos or not? The premise of apartheid, at least the way it was sold, was all about separate development being good for all races so infringing on the pseudo-sovereignty of the Bantustans would be a bad look… well, a worse look than the existence of the quasi-states anyway.
And guess what happened! Black and white people came together to gamble – save for the manufactured economic factors that dampened black…