The Best of Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa
Jul 8, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
702 Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa is broadcast on 702, a Johannesburg based talk radio station. Bongani makes sense of the news, interviews the key newsmakers of the day, and holds those in power…
Jerome SeptemberGuest
Bongani BingwaHost
You're saying that essentially the real problem here is not only students turning to online gaming and gambling, but that many students are finding it difficult to trust even in the future they've been promised.
Well, what we've of course seen, the first marker was of course when NSFA signed that agreement with the National Gambling Board.
And what we're seeing is increasingly young people who are anxious, who are depressed, who are perhaps struggling academically, who deal with, as you said, food insecurity, with debt, with family pressure.
And so we talk about gambling, but that's almost towards the end of what the student is actually going through.
And so by the time we see that, when we see the gambling, it's actually connected to so many other things that that would have happened so you see these promising young people coming onto our campuses who then get caught up in this but there's two sides to this the one is of course the financial as you are saying but we also need to understand the bigger ecosystem where gambling is being marketed as something that is attractive, that is in a culture where we talk about the hustle, the side hustle, the making it in life.
It's also being presented as an attractive option for myself to think about in a context where perhaps I'm not so hopeful that I will get a job.
Surely there's some responsibility on the person who chooses to participate in this.
That's 65% of adults in South Africa gamble, 31% of those problematic gambling.
Now you take that context, it's a much bigger societal context, together with technological platforms to actually to gamble to get involved in this.
You're saying that essentially the real problem here is not only students turning to online gaming and gambling, but that many students are finding it difficult to trust even in the future they've been promised.
Well, what we've of course seen, the first marker was of course when NSFA signed that agreement with the National Gambling Board.
And what we're seeing is increasingly young people who are anxious, who are depressed, who are perhaps struggling academically, who deal with, as you said, food insecurity, with debt, with family pressure.
And so we talk about gambling, but that's almost towards the end of what the student is actually going through.
And so by the time we see that, when we see the gambling, it's actually connected to so many other things that that would have happened so you see these promising young people coming onto our campuses who then get caught up in this but there's two sides to this the one is of course the financial as you are saying but we also need to understand the bigger ecosystem where gambling is being marketed as something that is attractive, that is in a culture where we talk about the hustle, the side hustle, the making it in life.
It's also being presented as an attractive option for myself to think about in a context where perhaps I'm not so hopeful that I will get a job.
Surely there's some responsibility on the person who chooses to participate in this.
That's 65% of adults in South Africa gamble, 31% of those problematic gambling.
Now you take that context, it's a much bigger societal context, together with technological platforms to actually to gamble to get involved in this.
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