Articles for Raymond Joseph
Covid-19: Minister puts a stop to lottery ticket sales
Unclear why National Lotteries Commission was selling a non-essential good during lockdown
News | 25 April 2020
Covid-19: You can’t buy warm food, but you can buy Lottery tickets
No explanation offered as to why this has remained an essential good
Opinion | 24 April 2020
Covid-19: South Africa is racing to produce the masks needed to fight the virus
After a slow start, production has been ramped up
Feature | 22 April 2020
Dodgy off-the-shelf companies cash in on Lottery millions
Huge grants given to Lottopreneurs with no track record
News | 10 April 2020
Lottery was warned in 2014 about fraud – and yet it continued
Had all the recommendations been taken seriously hundreds of millions of rands would not have been wasted in subsequent years
News | 3 April 2020
Lottery officials fibbed about clean audits
NLC received a qualified audit for the 2017/18 financial year
News | 13 March 2020
The Lottery and the missing minstrel museum
Six years ago the Lottery gave R13 million for a museum which still does not exist
Feature | 21 February 2020
Lottery paid millions of rands to COO’s wife’s company
Companies linked to Phillemon Letwaba’s friends and family have received huge amounts of Lottery money
Feature | 28 January 2020
Member of Parliament calls for Lottery board to be fired
NLC investigating itself is like “turkeys voting for Christmas”, says MP in letter to minister Patel
Brief | 23 January 2020