Commission is rocked by corruption that saw R1. 4 billion stolen. The corruption, which took place over more than five years.

The net is closing on high profile individuals and companies who ate more than R1 billion from the National Lotteries Commission funds as cases are brought against suspects. The National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have obtained a preservation order to freeze properties worth millions of rands of the suspected individuals and companies.

A company of which Kwaito producer and musician Arthur Mafokate is the sole director was paid over R1-million from a lottery grant for a music festival that never took place.The star-studded Mzansi Arts and Heritage Festival (Mahefe) was due to be staged at the Abrahamsrust Resort on the banks of the Vaal River in Sasolburg, Free State, on 26 September 2015.

After the Mahefe Festival was cancelled it was “transformed into the Young Artists Gala Night” at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg, according to Mafokate.

Though Arthur Mafokate have since denied that and said, his company, delivered the project successfully and did not merely ‘through a sleight of hands’ syphon off funds from the NLC.