Mystery of R15 million Lotto funding in Limpopo deepens
13 August 2020
There is no trace of the R10 million sports project the National Lotteries Commission says it has funded in Vyeboom, Limpopo. Photo: Google Earth
A tiny community in northern Limpopo, which was supposed to benefit from more than R15 million in National Lotteries Commission (NLC) funding, say they have no knowledge of the projects or where the money might have gone.
Last month GroundUp carried the story of two grants awarded to Vyeboom Youth Development (VYD). According to the NLC records, VYD received R5 million in 2017 to stage a music festival. In August last year, VYD received R10.1 million in lottery funding, apparently for a sports-related project. Very little about the music festival is known, except that it apparently took place in Mpumalanga. No trace of any sports project in Vyeboom, which is in rural Limpopo, could be found.