JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and THANDUXOLO JIKA THE National Lotteries Board is demanding R19m in funding back from the controversial head of the Jazz Foundation amid claims the ANC Youth League attempted to interfere in an earlier dispute with the music organisation. The latest salvo in the battle between the Board and Jazz Foundation CEO… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE The National Lotteries Board withdrew, allegedly illegally, over R114m in funding to non-profit organisations, internal lottery documents show. The documents, leaked to Media24 Investigations, emerge as the National Lotteries Board agreed to re-instate a R20m lottery grant to a Gauteng literacy project.

By Jeanne van der Merwe and Andrew Trench Johannesburg – A company employing the daughter of the National Lotteries Board’s chairperson, scored more than R41m in lottery money to stage arts extravaganzas overseas. This made Makhaya Arts and Culture – the company employing Professor Alfred Nevhutanda’s daughter – the biggest winner of Lotto funds among… Read More »