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South Africa: Auditor-General Declines Request to Investigate Irregular Lottery Grants
GroundUp, 23 August 2021
Cape minstrel organisation needs an audit, says former MP Read more »
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South Africa: R10 Million in Lottery Funding for a Limpopo Children's Centre Didn't Go to Any Children
GroundUp, 19 August 2021
No one in the area seems to know how the money for the Tshimbupfe Drop-in Centre for destitute children was used Read more »
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South Africa: Dodgy Lottery - Judge Dismisses Attempt to Block SIU Investigating Lottery Millions
GroundUp, 23 July 2021
Gauteng High Court has dismissed Ramulifho associate Liesl Moses's interdict to keep the SIU from investigating her Read more »
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South Africa: Lottery COO Back At Work After 17-Month 'Leave of Absence'
GroundUp, 26 July 2021
National Lotteries Commission's COO Philemon Letwaba has returned to work after a lengthy "leave of absence" since early 2020. Read more »
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South Africa: GroundUp Journalists Win Nat Nakasa Award for Lottery Reporting
GroundUp, 16 August 2021
GroundUp editor Nathan Geffen and journalist Raymond Joseph have won this year's South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) Nat Nakasa award for courageous community journalism. Read more »
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South Africa: Minister of Justice's Law Firm Bungled Lottery Corruption Probe
GroundUp, 21 July 2021
Three forensic reports into National Lotteries Commission funding have found no evidence of corruption. Read more »
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South Africa: Dr Tumi, the Lottery and the Alleged Fraud of R1.5 Million
GroundUp, 10 June 2021
The arrest of popular gospel singer Dr Tumi earlier this year sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry and among his fans. Although the matter is unfolding in a Gauteng… Read more »
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South Africa: Cosatu Calls for Public Audit of Lottery
GroundUp, 11 May 2021
"The silence of the NLC on these allegations is deafening" Read more »
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South Africa: Lottery Spends Millions Fighting Former Employees
GroundUp, 28 April 2021
The National Lotteries Commission has, since 2016, spent over R8 million in litigation against former employees, most of whom had claimed that they were unfairly dismissed. Read more »
South African Auditor-General Rejects Lottery Grants Probe
The Auditor-General has turned down a formal request to audit lottery grants running into millions, given to a Cape Town-based minstrel organisation, writes Liezl Human for GroundUp. The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) has received over U.S.$4.4 million in grants from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC).
The Auditor-General's refusal to audit the NLC comes against a backdrop of ongoing reporting exposing fraud, corruption and nepotism involving lottery grants. This includes when a U.S.$693,000 grant meant for the Tshimbupfe Drop-in Centre for destitute children in Limpopo province was apparently channelled to a borehole project, and when attorney Liesl Moses, from legal firm Ramulifho Inc, applied for an interdict to keep the Special Investigating Unit from probing an allegation that she received U.S.$1,8 million from the NLC that was meant to build a drug rehabilitation centre, and a sports centre in Tshwane in the Gauteng province.
GroundUp's coverage of graft in the NLC has been recognised with South African National Editors' Forum Nat Nakasa Award for courageous community journalism.
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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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