South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has introduced a law to regulate online gambling in the country, ending a long period of ambiguity after efforts to regulate the vertical collapsed 14 years ago.

Currently, South African law allows online gambling to be offered by any operator with a licence issued by a provincial authority. However, the country does not have a full legislative framework, as the National Gambling Amendment Act of 2008 – intended to properly regulate the vertical – never came into force.

Now, though, the Democratic Alliance is set to introduce a bill with many of the same goals as that 2008 act in the National Assembly of Parliament.