Department of trade and industry ordered the investigation, but the Lottery spins a different story.
After strongly defending two multimillion-rand projects it funded, the National Lottery Commission has done a complete about-face and now says that it is investigating both of them.
The one project is a drug rehabilitation centre in Pretoria and the other is a school in Limpopo that was destroyed during protests a few years ago.Leslie Ramulifho to get R27.5 million in Lottery funding to build a new drug rehabilitation centre near Pretoria. The other project involved is an NPO run by a boxing promoter with no history in construction, who was given R28.3 million to rebuild a Limpopo school that was destroyed during protests in the Vuwani area in 2015 and 2016.that Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies had ordered an investigation into fraud and corruption involving NLC grants. Well-informed sources told GroundUp that the investigation involved both “forensic and internal audits”.
“The minister has instructed the NLC Board and DTI Internal Audit to institute an investigation,” DTI spokesman Sidwell Medupe said last week.by the NLC puts a different spin on the investigation. The NLC claimed that its Board had “commissioned an independent investigation” into Denzhe and Simba after “allegations of misappropriation of funds surfaced in the media with regards to two projects” in October last year.
“The investigations are ongoing, and the Board continuously sends updates to the Minister of Trade and Industry,” NLC head of communications Ndivhuho Mafela said in the release.
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