South Africa: What Happened to the Lottery Money Paid to Fund Games for Intellectually Impaired Athletes?

11 January 2022

R25 million of a National Lotteries Commission (NLC) grant to the South African Sports Association for the Intellectually Impaired (SASA-II), a sports body for intellectually impaired athletes, to host a Bloemfontein event, is still unaccounted for.

An earlier application by SASA-II to the NLC, for a grant of about R5 million, in the 2015-6 financial year, had been turned down. But a second application for R30 million was approved. The first tranche of R15 million was paid to SASA-II within ten days of it being submitted, on 27 November 2015, and a second tranche of R15 million was paid to SASA-II in January 2016. The money was to cover the costs of World Championships for people with Down syndrome in Bloemfontein in late 2015.

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