ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW LOTTERY LICENCE OPERATOR POSTPONED - ONCE AGAIN

Parks Tau, the trade and industry minister, has postponed naming a successful bidder to operate South Africa’s lottery if the tenure of current operator, Ithuba, ends in May possibly next yr.Ithuba’s licence was because of to acquire expired in Could 2023 but was extended for two yrs by Tau’s predecessor Ebrahim Patel after a request with the

Former Nationwide Lotteries Commission (NLC) board chairperson Alfred Nevhutanda asked the Point out Safety Company (SSA) in December 2018 to research the leaking of files that exposed lottery corruption.The NLC’s organization secretary at some time detailed media reports she claimed were based on “stolen” data within an affidavit for the SSA