A Northern Cape court has blocked a gambling licence for slot machines due to the distance from a local high school. A resort in Upington took Crazy Slots and the gambling board to court on the rounds that the proposed slot machines would be 500 metres fromm the town's high school.
Two years ago, Crazy Slots was granted a license to install pay-out machines at an eatery called Goodfellas. It accused the board of making an"arbitrary" and"capricious" decision to grant the license, which included discounting evidence of how close the school was to Goodfellas. Desert Palace Hotel Resort, in turn, said the actual distance was 341 metres as the crow flies and 461 metres by road. The court concluded that the gambling board had failed to make a case and that it had investigated the distance.