Author: Raymond Joseph

In 2016, a R25-million Lottery grant was channelled through SASCOC to an organisation for a Rio Olympics “roadshow send-off”. Part of this was paid to a company belonging to the wife of the National Lotteries Commission board at the time. The Special Investigating Unit has referred the matter to the Hawks, and the National Lotteries Commission have also opened a case with the police. But there is growing frustration at the slow pace of the Hawks’ investigation. The National Lottery Commission’s (NLC) former board chairperson and its ex-chief operating officer, as well as former senior executives of South Africa’s official…

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) instructed service providers to pay third parties it had appointed, thereby concealing the source of the money. The NLC ran a parallel procurement process that bypassed its official supply chain management system. Millions of rands are involved. Celebrities were paid huge fees as speakers and panellists at NLC “ethics events”. The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) used service providers to pay millions to third-party suppliers it appointed. This effectively bypassed its supply management system and concealed that it was the source of the funds, a GroundUp investigation has found. This occurred at a time when the…