Articles for Raymond Joseph

Dodgy foundation must repay R4-million lottery grant meant for school boreholes

The boreholes had existed for three years before the NLC grant was awarded to the Mshandukani Foundation

New Lottery Commission Board chair appointed

King Tembinkosi Bonakele has been appointed chairperson of the National Lottery Commission’s board.

Lottery budgets nearly a quarter of a billion rand for legal fees

This is the cost of rooting out corruption, Commissioner Jodi Scholtz tells Parliament

Hawks act on lottery looting cases

Within weeks of missing a parliamentary briefing, the Hawks submitted 13 lottery fraud dockets to prosecutors

What we know about the deal that caused the Sunday Times editor to be placed on “special leave”

Special Tribunal freezes two properties bought with lottery funds

Funds meant for an agricultural project to benefit 1,900 unemployed people were used to buy homes for directors of non-profit organisations

Report into R66-million netball lottery grant recommends litigation to recover funds

The Special Investigating Unit is probing the grant

Sunday World journalists were offered money to bring in advertising

The acting editor at the time, Ngwako Malatji, is connected to Lottery deals under SIU investigation

Sunday Times editor Makhudu Sefara placed on “special leave” after SIU announces investigation

Sefara was elected chair of the South African National Editors Forum despite concerns raised about his connections to the Lottery