Articles for Raymond Joseph

Inside Gauteng’s welfare corruption investigation

A forensic audit caused dozens of welfare organisations to be defunded. These were the findings against them

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Feature | 30 September 2026

How not to fix a corrupt and incompetent government

The Gauteng Department of Social Development is a masterclass in how not to deal with mismanagement and corruption

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Feature | 29 September 2026

Gauteng government’s R144-million gift to beauty training company

Officials are still on duty, despite serious forensic audit findings

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Feature | 28 September 2026

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

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News | 24 July 2026

New Lottery Commission Board chair appointed

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

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Brief | 6 July 2026

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

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News | 25 June 2026

Hawks act on lottery looting cases

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

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News | 4 June 2026

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

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News | 15 May 2026