The sugar sector is on track with its five-year transformation plan, with the government having spend hundreds of million rand to remedy the inequalities experienced by black sugar cane farmers.
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R5 million was paid towards a house for William Huma, a National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board member, by an organisation that received an NLC grant.
The organisation had been dormant for 15 years, but nevertheless was awarded R27 million by the NLC.
Payments totalling R2 million were made to Huma in late 2016 by Upbrand Properties, a company associated with the suspended NLC COO Phillemon Letwaba, just months before Huma was appointed to the NLC board.
Huma recently applied for the vacant position of board chairperson of the NLC, but was not shortlisted.
Millions of rands from a Lottery grant to build an old age home in Mpumalanga were used to pay for a luxury home on a sprawling estate in North West province, which was purchased by a company belonging to a board member of the NLC, according to
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Millions of rands from a Lottery grant to build an old age home in Mpumalanga were used to pay for a luxury home on a sprawling estate in North West province, which was purchased by a company belonging to a board member of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC).
Within a week of the NLC approving a R20-million grant in 2017 to Matieni Community Centre to build the old age home in the rural village of Marapyane, R5-million was paid by Matieni to attorneys handling the sale of the luxury home in Rustenberg.
Matieni has been dormant and non-compliant for almost 15 years, according to the Department of Social Development (DSD) register of non-profit organisations. The NPO was hijacked and used to apply to the NLC for funding, as was the case with Denzhe Primary Care, War RNA and Mushumo Ushavha Zwanda, which all received multi-million-rand Lottery grants to build old age homes.