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The Citizen reports that the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has paid at least R8.3 million in salaries to suspended employees currently facing disciplinary action.
This was disclosed by Trade, Industry, and Competition Minister Parks Tau in a recent parliamentary response. He revealed that the NLC is managing seven disciplinary cases, including one involving a senior manager, following findings by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and in other forensic reports on fraud and corruption. Six of the seven implicated employees are on precautionary suspension with full pay. The seventh, a monitoring and evaluation specialist based at the NLC’s Eastern Cape office, has not been suspended, but is under disciplinary review. According to the reply, the NLC has incurred a total of R8,39, 888 in salary costs for the six employees placed on precautionary suspension. The NLC’s company secretary, based at its head office, was suspended in November 2022, with hearings having commenced in March 2023 and the salary since suspension amounting to R4.9 million. The NLC’s legal manager, who was suspended in October 2023, has received over R1.5 million during the suspension period. In a separate response, Tau disclosed that a backlog of over 3,000 grant funding applications from the 2023/2024 financial year remained unresolved. This backlog is due to staff vacancies within the NLC’s Distributing Agency, which is responsible for evaluating and recommending funding for “worthy good causes”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Molefe Seeletsa The Citizen
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