Journalists were advised to rather focus on the country's latest investment conference.
GroundUp has made numerous attempts to ask Minister Ebrahim Patel what he is doing about dodgy Lottery deals, to no avail. GroundUp archive photo: Ashraf HendricksGroundUp sent the Department of Trade and Industry questions on the National Lottery Commission’s sudden decision to no longer publish the names of its beneficiaries. But DTI spokesman Sidwell Medupe told us rather to focus on the Investment Summit in Johannesburg.
The decision by the NLC follows exposés of several dodgy lottery projects, some of them involving Pretoria attorney Lesley Ramulifho. The NLC falls under the Department of Trade and Industry. Minister of Trade and Industry, Ebrahim Patel, has previously asked the Commission to pursue ain connection with a controversial R27.5-million Lottery grant awarded to a company controlled by Ramulifho to construct a drug rehabilitation centre near Pretoria.
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