How lottery grant was used to pay for board member’s luxury home Raymond Joseph
Picture: Raymond Joseph 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.
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.