{"id":235937,"date":"2022-09-01T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/new-acting-lottery-boss-appointed\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:56:44","slug":"new-acting-lottery-boss-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/new-acting-lottery-boss-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"New acting Lottery boss appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New people take over the running of the National Lotteries Commission as of 1 September. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

Lionel October, the former director-general of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) has been appointed<\/a> acting Commissioner of the National Lotteries Commission.<\/p>\n

October\u2019s appointment follows last month\u2019s sudden resignation<\/a> of Thabang Mampane, only a few weeks before her second five-year term was due to expire and after GroundUp revealed that her home had been bought with Lottery money.<\/p>\n

October stepped down as DTIC Director General in April last year to take up a position<\/a> as the head of the new Special Economic Zones unit at the Industrial Development Corporation.<\/p>\n

October\u2019s appointment to the NLC hot seat is effective from 1 September.<\/p>\n

It follows the appointment of human rights lawyer and cleric Barney Pityana as chairperson of the NLC board. Pityana also took up his appointment on 1 September.<\/p>\n

GroundUp has revealed<\/a> how hundreds of millions of rands from Lottery grants, meant for \u201cgood causes\u201d have been lost to fraud and corruption, especially after the introduction of so-called proactive funding<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

Pityana\u2019s and October\u2019s appointments follow the appointment of a new board<\/a> earlier this year, as part of the clean-up of the scandal-ridden<\/a> NLC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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