Former Lottery Executive Fired After Disciplinary Hearing
A former National Lotteries Commission NLC chief operating officer, who faced internal charges involving two dodgy multimillion-rand lottery grants, has been summarily dismissed.
Sanele Dlamini, a former KwaZulu-Natal provincial manager, was appointed as NLC acting chief operating officer after the sudden resignation of Phillemon Letwaba, who was facing disciplinary charges at the time. Among the charges Letwaba faced was signing off on the two projects which are being investigated by the Special Investigating Unit SIU and the Hawks.
GroundUp previously reported on one of these projects, a sports centre in Soweto that was never built despite the NLC forking out millions of rands.
Another disciplinary hearing has recommended that Sibonelo Vilakazi, a client liaison officer at the NLC KwaZulu-Natal office, be dismissed.
Vilikazis disciplinary inquiry heard how a company in which his wife was the sole director benefited from lottery grants to football clubs and crches.