Lottery millions for old age home used for board member...
. 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 Depa...