Gone are the days when, if you wanted to play slots, you had to leave the house and find a casino, or sneak into a seedy haunt if you wanted to cast a sports bet. Now you can do that from anywhere that connects to the internet – and it’s all legal. Well, sort of.

Online gambling may still be illegal in South Africa, but local casino operators and bookmakers are lining up to cash in after two provincial regulators recently began exploiting a legal loophole to allow operators to offer everything from live casino games to casino slots.