Here are articles on who plays the South African Lottery, how the Lottery money is distributed, and dodgy dealings by the National Lotteries Commission and its recipients.
Director of Harmonica Jazz Foundation was a member of a National Lotteries Commission distributing agency
By Liezl Human
Feature | 16 March 2020
NLC received a qualified audit for the 2017/18 financial year
News | 13 March 2020
NLC chairperson claims people are making money off the beneficiary list
News | 10 March 2020
Memo calls on Ebrahim Patel not to suspend the National Lottery Commission’s board
By Elna SchĂĽtz
News | 6 March 2020
Toilets were promised to schools with pit latrines, but never delivered
Feature | 3 March 2020
Six years ago the Lottery gave R13 million for a museum which still does not exist
Feature | 21 February 2020
“The NLC’s game plan is to bully and threaten anyone who looks to make allegations or substantiate allegations against it,” says MP
By Elna SchĂĽtz
News | 5 February 2020
GroundUp accused of breaching law by revealing details of grants
News | 3 February 2020
Companies linked to Phillemon Letwaba’s friends and family have received huge amounts of Lottery money
Feature | 28 January 2020
NLC investigating itself is like “turkeys voting for Christmas”, says MP in letter to minister Patel
Brief | 23 January 2020
Only a fraction of the R11 million grant appears to have gone to its intended purpose
Feature | 20 January 2020
It has massively increased spending on advertorials over the past few years
Analysis | 17 December 2019
R19 million a year paid to seven people
By Roxanne Joseph and Nompumelelo Mtsweni
Brief | 9 December 2019
Facility, which is unfinished after two years, is in Lottery COO’s village
Feature | 6 December 2019
UNISA survey gives insight into who plays the Lotto and why
Feature | 2 December 2019
A Gauteng company with no track record in construction was contracted to build a facility in the small Eastern Cape town of Storms River
Feature | 28 November 2019