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GroundUp reports that the former chairman of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), Alfred Nevhutanda, has gone to court to challenge the proclamation signed in October 2020 by President Cyril Ramaphosa giving the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) the go-head to investigate the affairs of the commission.
This investigation led, among other things, to the freezing of a R27-million Pretoria mansion owned by Nevhutanda. In his pending application before the Pretoria High Court, Nevhutanda wants the proclamation to be declared unlawful because the NLC is not an organ of state, nor does it deal with public money which, he claims, are prerequisites under the SIU Act. Further, he says, the proclamation is too broad in that it gives the SIU the power to “go on a fishing expedition, permitting it to turn over any stone to its heart’s content”. The first step in the application, which was filed in April this year, was for the President to file the written record of the decision. That has now been filed and Nevhutanda is expected to file a further affidavit before the President and the government file their papers. Nevhutanda served as chairperson of the NLC Board between December 2009 and November 2020. With reference to the freezing of the property, he claims it is registered in the name of his spouse. Nevhutanda points out that it was initially estimated that the investigation would take a year, and cost about R30.5-million. The investigation has now been going on for three years with no indication of how much it is costing.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tania Broughton at GroundUp
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