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Cabinet appoints new lotteries commission board members

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New board replaces the four-member board appointed by trade, industry and competition minister Ebrahim Patel in March last year

The Special Investigating Unit is investigating fraud and corruption that allegedly took place in the National Lotteries Commission Picture:123RF

The new members of the NLC include Willie Hofmeyr, the former head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the National Prosecuting Authority who is a known corruption buster. The new board also includes former director-general of the department of trade & industry Lionel October and former head of the Competition Commission Thembinkosi Bonakele.

GroundUp journalist Raymond Joseph reported in September last year that the Special Investigating Unit was probing dodgy lottery grants which are meant to be allocated to worthy causes worth over R1.4bn.

 

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