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Conflicts of interest and incomplete projects: How Lottery money is being spent

1 August 2019 | ARTICLE

By Raymond Joseph

Undeclared conflicts of interest and incomplete or shoddy construction characterise many projects funded by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC). Our research uncovers what is possibly only a fract...

Limpopo’s forgotten schools and the Lottery’s expensive toilets

24 May 2019 | ARTICLE

By Anton van Zyl

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) seems to have paid up to twice as much as necessary to replace pit toilets at schools in Limpopo - with the money going to a little known Gauteng based contract...

Lottery admits it’s investigating projects it defended

16 May 2019 | ARTICLE

By Raymond Joseph

After strongly defending two multimillion-rand projects it funded, the National Lottery Commission (NLC) has done a complete about face and now says that it is investigating both of them. The one proj...

Lottery’s promise of toilets leaves a nasty smell

3 May 2019 | ARTICLE

By Anton van Zyl, Bernard Chiguvare, Kaizer Nengovhela and Raymond Joseph

After months of complaining to authorities about the dire conditions at Waterval High in Limpopo, fed up learners and their parents barricaded the streets around the school to draw attention to their ...

Lottery recipient’s attempt to muzzle media fails - for now

17 April 2019 | ARTICLE

By GroundUp Staff

Judge Hennie de Vos in the Pretoria High Court has struck from the roll an urgent application to remove articles from the GroundUp, Citizen and Daily Dispatch websites. In November, GroundUp published...

Lottery gives out more money to associates of controversial lawyer

19 March 2019 | ARTICLE

By Raymond Joseph

The National Lotteries Commission has awarded two grants totalling R20-million rand to two non-profit companies associated with a controversial lawyer, despite the fact that another multimillion-rand ...

The Lawyer, the Lottery and millions in dodgy grants

14 December 2018 | ARTICLE

By Raymond Joseph

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has launched an investigation into a multimillion rand grant made to a dormant and non-compliant, non-profit organisation. GroundUp recently reported how Lesley...

How a hijacked organisation scored millions from the Lottery

22 November 2018 | ARTICLE

By Raymond Joseph and Anton van Zyl

When Takalani Tshikalange set up a non-profit organisation in rural Limpopo in 2012 to help people with HIV she hoped to make a real difference. But despite her best intentions, Denzhe Primary Care fa...