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South Africa: Lottery Millions Used for Board Member's Luxury Home
GroundUp, 3 March 2021
R5 million was paid towards a house for William Huma, a National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board member, by an organisation that received an NLC grant. Read more »
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South Africa: Parliament Shortlists Eight Candidates for Lottery Chair
GroundUp, 26 February 2021
Parliament's Trade, Industry and Competition portfolio committee has finalised a shortlist of eight candidates to be interviewed for the vacant post of chairperson of the board of… Read more »
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South Africa: DA Demands Forensic Audit Into Dodgy Cape Minstrel Grants
DA, 16 February 2021
The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the Auditor-General's (AG) decision to consider investigating the suspicious finding of the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) by… Read more »
Millions Used on South African Lottery Board Member's Luxury Home
U.S.$364,429 from a Lottery grant meant to build an old age home in Mpumalanga have been used to pay for a luxury home on a sprawling estate in North West Province, which was purchased by a company belonging to a board member of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), writes Raymond Joseph for GroundUp. This marks the latest in a series of graft allegations leveled against the NLC whose offices were raided by the police's special investigative units after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a proclamation authorising a probe into alleged corruption and maladministration at the NLC.
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The Hawks and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have raided the offices of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and Metrofile, a document storage company, after obtaining a ... Read more »
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An explosive 2015 report reveals how the National Lotteries Commission's chief risk officer flagged key governance issues that have since come back to haunt the National Lottery ... Read more »
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The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation - the Hawks - have begun their investigation into Lottery corruption after they received a complaint from the Department of Trade, ... Read more »
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Department of Trade, Industry and Competition minister Ebrahim Patel has confirmed that government commissioned an independent investigation into multimillion-rand Lottery-funded ... Read more »
Google satellite view of a luxury house in North West which was partly paid with money that was supposed to be used to build an old age home. Image from Google Maps.
