Lottery licences suspended

Gambling Authority has been barred from issuing national lottery licenses
Gambling Authority has been barred from issuing national lottery licenses

The Gambling Authority has currently been stopped from issuing any licence to any party interested in operating the national lottery.

The Authority was interdicted from proceeding with, nor taking any further action in accepting, assessing and processing the Botswana National Lottery Licence applications.

This is purely because the Authority already has a pending arbitration case with one of the parties that was interested in running the national lottery when the authority floated a tender in 2017.

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