South Africa: Lottery Millions Used for Board Member’s Luxury Home
[GroundUp] R5 million was paid towards a house for William Huma, a National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board member, by an organisation that received an NLC grant.
[GroundUp] R5 million was paid towards a house for William Huma, a National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board member, by an organisation that received an NLC grant.
[GroundUp] Concern raised about missed production target, but Professor Glenda Gray says it's a well-oiled company and they know what they have to do
[GroundUp] Parliament's Trade, Industry and Competition portfolio committee has finalised a shortlist of eight candidates to be interviewed for the vacant post of chairperson of the board of the National Lotteries Commission.
[GroundUp] Auswell Mashaba, former head of Swifambo, supplier of the notorious locomotives to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, failed to appear at the Zondo commission on Wednesday. Photo source: AM Consulting Engineers, accessed via Internet Archive.
[GroundUp] Scores of commuters were left stranded on Tuesday when nearly 2,000 taxi owners and drivers protested in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) city centre over their UIF/TERS funds.
[GroundUp] Four-year-old Simone and her two brothers try to run errands for their neighbours in the informal settlement in Tsakane, to earn small change to buy food. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro
[GroundUp] "Government appears to be leveraging the pandemic to suppress dissent"
[GroundUp] A Phase I Covid-19 vaccine trial is about to start in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)
[GroundUp] Gender activists welcome draft new identity management policy, with some reservations