THANDUXOLO JIKA and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE A CONTROVERSIAL former lottery official is accused of splurging Lotto cash on luxury travel and chauffeurs and fiddling his books on a R19m grant. Now the National Lottery Board has launched a law suit claiming back the R19m from a R32.2m grant made to the Jazz Foundation in… Read More »

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 relationship between the National Lotteries Board and the Jazz Foundation has fluctuated wildly in the five years since its CEO Oupa Salemane became a member of the lottery’s distributing agency for arts. Salemane served on the agency from July 2006 until July last year. The Lotteries Board… Read More »