DA welcomes the resignation of the NLC Commissioner
17 August 2022
The DA welcomes the announcement that National Lotteries Commissioner (NLC), Thabang Mampane, has resigned effective from 15 August 2022.
However, this comes too late. We have been calling on the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel, to fire her for the past 3 years.
There is no doubt that her 10 years at the helm of the organisation have been characterised by allegations of corruption and maladministration – at the expense of the marginalised.
It was recently revealed by publication GroundUp that she used money meant for the rebuilding of a school gutted by fire, to purchase a luxury home worth R3.6 million in a golf estate near Hartebeespoort Dam.