The Lottery and its discontents
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.
Lottery made accusations against our reporter. Now it can’t back them up
Minister Ebrahim Patel responds to questions in Parliament
By James Stent
News | 15 September 2021
Television pastor and her cronies rake in millions in Lottery grants
Joyline Josamu is a pastor in the church of wealthy televangelist Chris Oyakhilome
News | 9 September 2021
Threat to journalist investigating Lottery corruption
Tebogo Sithathu’s organisation got grants totalling R9.7 million, but National Lotteries Commission won’t say what it was for
News | 30 August 2021
Auditor-General declines request to investigate irregular Lottery grants
Cape minstrel organisation needs an audit, says former MP
By Liezl Human
News | 23 August 2021
R10 million in Lottery funding for a Limpopo children’s centre didn’t go to any children
No one in the area seems to know how the money for the Tshimbupfe Drop-in Centre for destitute children was used
By Anton van Zyl and Kaizer Nengovhela
News | 19 August 2021
Millions in Lottery funds spent on one-night “music and arts festival”
NPO was given R4.8 million for the concert
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Raymond Joseph
Feature | 10 August 2021
The Lottery, the law firm and the minister: more questions than answers
We have uncovered hundreds of millions of rands worth of corruption and maladministration over three years, but no one has been brought to justice
GroundView | 27 July 2021
Lottery COO back at work after 17-month “leave of absence”
Audit firm SkX has so far been paid R9.65 million to investigate alleged Lottery corruption
News | 26 July 2021