However, things didn’t go the way they wanted.
A State Security Agency investigation found that the “prevalence” of alleged corruption and irregularities involving the National Lotteries Commission and its beneficiaries “provided ample motive” for exposure by the media.
Significantly, the SSA made it clear that the need to protect state information “does not prevent any individual from blowing the whistle on corruption or irregular or illegal activity”. It also stated that “the prevalence of alleged corruption and irregularities within the NLC and at its beneficiaries does provide ample motive to have such exposed in the media”.In 2020, Nevhutanda told MPs during a session of Parliament’s trade, industry and competition portfolio committee that there was “a conspiracy” in which information “stolen” from the NLC was sent to the US, where he claimed it was being sold to fund a smear campaign against the NLC.
Proactive funding was at the heart of the looting of the lottery. It side-stepped the normal grant process. The NLC could itself identify a project to fund and appoint a non-profit organisation to oversee it. “There was a lot of internal discussion, with lots of back and forth, about what to do to plug the alleged leaks”, a source, who was in a senior position at the NLC at the time, told GroundUp. “In the end, the decision was taken to remove all the proactive projects from the system and limit access to a handful of people”.Maselwa, who resigned from the NLC several years ago, has been implicated in corruption involving lottery funds. He received R4.
The NLC was able to recover copies of some documents from its Mimecast email archiving system and the laptops of their assistants and support staff.In his 1 December 2018 letter, addressed to then SSA Minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, Nevhutanda wrote: “The NLC has noted with grave concern possible information security breaches and the unauthorised use and/or dissemination of confidential information obtained as a result of performing official functions in the Commission by NLC employees.
Qhino, who blew the whistle on a series of dodgy lottery-funded projects in Kuruman after attempts to raise the issue internally were ignored, was subsequently fired. When Runqu was suspended, Makatse moved out of the family home to take the heat off her and his children. Facing homelessness, he moved into an office in an empty factory belonging to a friend.
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