The person who has been following the National Lottery Board story for years is:

Raymond Joseph

Freelance Journalist (most of his stories published by Group Up)

Two officials in Kimberley are alleged to have run a scheme where they would take cuts from non-profit organisations for approving funds. Several million rands are involved in the scheme. The SIU says it will institute legal proceedings to recover financial losses once investigations are concluded. Kganyago says once they have been concluded, a report will be handed to the President. “We are now finalising the first phase and we are going to give the report to the President – what we call interim report to the President by the end of April. And then we have already started phase 2 which we hope to finish in November to give the President the report in December. But at the rate things are going because we are getting new allegations on daily basis, we might have to give a report and it might not be final at that time so that we finish what is remaining in this investigation. You will know that we started this investigation in November 2020.

The SIU says allegations of corruption at the National Lottery run deep – and affect nearly all its offices across the country.