Project: Gaming the Lottery

National Lotteries Commission launches investigation into multi-million rand grants

The National Lottery Commission (NLC) gave a R22 million grant to a drug rehabilitation and sports centre without it being registered as a treatment centre with the Department of Social Development, a statuary requirement to operate such a facility.

Lowvelder recently became part of their investigative team, making it 61 people in the world looking into the lottery funding.

Lotto is South Africa is hugely supported by poor and low income earners, with 73 per cent of players earning less than R5 000 a month – and of those 33 per cent earn R1 000 a month or less.

“We view Lowvelder’s accusations of corruption and insinuations that the beneficiary lied to the journalist in a very serious light, as they cast aspersions on both the NLC and the beneficiary.”

Torrent of cash has been severely curtailed after the publication of this year’s ‘priority areas for funding’ guidelines by the National Lotteries Commission

A state-of-the-art sports complex to be built at Muduluni in honour of the late 800-metre track star, Mbulaheni Mulaudzi, who died in a car crash in 2014, is slowly getting off the ground. In January this year, details of the project were announced amid the usual fanfare and political claptrap. A sod-turning ceremony, attended by […]

R28.3 million handed over to a boxing promoter with no experience in construction

Eight years after the final whistle blew on South Africa’s Soccer World Cup, Rabali Stadium looks like a shining example of 2010’s ongoing legacy. Built by tournament organisers with National Lotteries Commission funding and opened in 2012, its artificial turf is a pristine green carpet on the dusty landscape of the Nzhelele valley. “It’s helping […]

Museum showcases what the Western Cape looked like millions of years ago