Former National Lotteries Board CEO Prof. Vevek Ram gives an overview of its 2009 dispute with the Jazz Foundation over a R15m lottery grant, in which he recounts ANC Youth League intervention to avoid a court case.

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 »

If you are a civil servant and want to get rich, join the ­National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). A City Press investigation has revealed that the agency’s staff will earn an average ­salary of R517 000 each this ­financial year, prompting one of its directors to admit that it was nothing more than an ANC… Read More »

Weeks before the controversial World Festival of Youth and Students began, the ANC Youth League secretly hijacked the event. Its first step was to order the ­National Youth Development Agency to kick out a multi-party committee which had already raised millions for the event. The agency, which is populated with former and current youth league… Read More »

South Africa’s top politicians have put their trust in trusts. A database of trust records held by the Justice Department and the register of parliamentarian’s interests shows at least 20 of the country’s top elected officials have significant interests in trust funds, often opaque financial vehicles which are not readily open to public scrutiny. (see… Read More »

Lede van die polisie se eenheid vir misdaadintelligensie is opdrag gegee om vas te stel wie verantwoordelik is vir vandeesweek se gewelddadige protes­optog van die ANC-jeugliga.Intussen kom al hoe meer getuienis na vore wat die jeugliga se topleiers betrek in die organisering van ’n protesveldtog ter ondersteuning van mnr. Julius Malema tydens sy tugverhoor.Dit kom… Read More »