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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »