Editorial staff
Her resignation comes just over two weeks after we, and others in the media, revealed that Lottery funding meant to build a Limpopo school razed by fire during a protest, had been used to pay for her luxury home in a golf estate.
It is gratifying to hear that the Commissioner of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), Thabang Charlotte Mampane, has resigned “with immediate effect”. But it is less cheering that she only left her lucrative position with a few weeks left on her contract. Mampane served 10 years as commissioner – effectively chief executive officer of the NLC. Her first five year contract was extended in September 2017. During that time, the whole National Lotteries structure has been systematically looted and hundreds of millions of rand intended to uplift the poor and the suffering has been diverted to an evil network of...
