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Leisure Discover & Entertainment Mzanzi<br />
LURE<br />
OF THE<br />
BIG WIN<br />
By Stef Terblanche<br />
Whether you spend a day at the horse<br />
races with a frenziedly excited crowd<br />
or a night in a casino with bells and<br />
whistles going off all around as the<br />
‘bandits’ strike gold, or anxiously<br />
watching a little spinning ball in a<br />
numbered merry-go-round, the sheer<br />
excitement will sweep you along.<br />
Not many of us can resist the lure of the big win, the temptation that Lady Luck<br />
will land that big cash windfall in your lap.<br />
South Africa has a well-established, world-class horse racing and casino<br />
gaming industry that draws people from all over the country and from far<br />
beyond our borders…because it offers so much more than just gambling. It is a<br />
multi-billion rand industry closely interwoven with all the fantastic offerings of<br />
our renowned tourism industry: world-class resorts and hotels, game reserves,<br />
magical shows, excellent wining and dining, getting close to those magnificent<br />
thoroughbreds, and of course the thrill of the big win. And it contributes much to<br />
our economy, to social development programmes and job creation.<br />
There was a time when betting on horse racing was the only legal form of<br />
gambling allowed in the country. Until that pioneering entrepreneur, Sol<br />
Kerzner, came along and built his iconic Sun City casino resort in 1979, set in<br />
an extinct volcanic crater northwest of Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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