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

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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

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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

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Feature | 22 April 2020

Dodgy off-the-shelf companies cash in on Lottery millions

Huge grants given to Lottopreneurs with no track record

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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

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News | 3 April 2020

Lottery officials fibbed about clean audits

NLC received a qualified audit for the 2017/18 financial year

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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

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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

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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

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Brief | 23 January 2020