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The director of a non-profit company which was paid R10-million by the National Lotteries Commission to build an athletics track in Kimberley says she was pressured into sub-contracting to an IT company which failed to do the job.
The NLC gave a grant of R15-million via non-profit company Inqaba Yokulinda on March 7, 2018. Of this, R10-million was earmarked for the track at Kimberley’s Galeshewe Stadium. The grant was signed off by Phillemon Letwaba, who is on a paid “leave of absence”, on 26 February 2018.
The remaining R5-million was for Inqaba to conduct a nationwide series of youth development initiatives, including camps for 400 youth in each of SA’s nine provinces. That part of the project was completed and all the funds accounted for.