Lottery whistleblower ‘pressured’ to pay IT company to build athletics track
Raymond Joseph, GroundUp
R10 million was paid but no work was done.
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 currently on a paid “leave of absence”, on 26 February, 2018.