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.
Millions of rands in lottery funding for mysterious music festival
R15 million paid to dormant organisation but chairman says he’s unaware of the grant
By Marecia Damons and Raymond Joseph
News | 29 July 2020
Lottery bows to pressure and releases grant details
But information on the Covid-19 relief fund is incomplete
News | 28 July 2020
OUTA lays fraud and racketeering complaint over Lottery grants
“NLC officials are intentionally turning a blind eye and are thus complicit and criminally liable”
News | 28 July 2020
Lottery officials removed a webpage and then accused us of falsely reporting what was on it
This latest dodgy move suggests that the NLC has no intention of publishing the list of grant recipients
GroundView | 24 July 2020
Mystery fires destroy cars on premises of Lottery corruption witnesses
Police investigating arson in both cases
News | 23 July 2020
GroundUp wins lottery court battle
Attempt to force us to stop publishing details of grants abandoned
Law | 21 July 2020
Parliament to order National Lotteries Commission to hand over details of all its grants
Refusal to do so would not “withstand constitutional scrutiny”, says parliamentary legal adviser
News | 15 July 2020
Ebrahim Patel says names of lottery-funded organisations should be made public
Minister makes it clear that he disagrees with National Lotteries Commission’s refusal to disclose recipients of grants
News | 1 July 2020
Government investigates lottery
Minister Ebrahim Patel confirms probe in letter to Parliament
News | 29 June 2020