The Lottery has stopped a grant for the lavishly funded yearly SATMA awards. Illustration: Lisa Nelson (SATMA symbol superimposed above first illustration)
From 2019 to 2022 the South African Regular New music Awards been given about R16-million through the Lottery.
Although the Lottery has withheld payment on the 2023 grant following an investigation.
The NLC has requested the Special Investigating Unit to probe alleged “double dipping” in decades in which funders besides the NLC also chipped in to assist fund the awards.
The size of funding for that once-a-year two night time event is astonishing.
The Mpumalanga federal government has funded the awards with about R41-million after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for three decades, commencing during the 2020/21 economical 12 months.
This has actually been Besides Lottery funding.
The Nationwide Lotteries Commission (NLC) is refusing to pay for a R1.2-million grant it in the beginning permitted for an annual common audio awards ceremony. Exactly the same celebration also obtained tens of a lot of rand from your Mpumalanga provincial governing administration.
From 2019 to 2022 the NLC awarded numerous grants totalling Pretty much R16.four-million towards the Mageza Heritage Foundation, the organisers in the yearly South African Regular Tunes Awards (SATMA).
But it halted the payment of the 2023 grant after an interior investigation.
GroundUp has uncovered large corruption from the NLC that passed off until eventually the preceding board and management was changed in 2022. The new NLC Management is aiming to thoroughly clean up the corruption of your previous.
The NLC’s investigation centered on the two the 2023 funding and before grants awarded to Mageza to stage the awards. The investigation also probed a payment of around R718,000, allegedly paid from Lottery cash to G4 Brothers, of which Dumisani Gobe, the founding father of the SATMA awards, is actually a director.
Requested if Mageza compensated G4 a licencing or every other costs to phase the awards, Goba said: “G4 was commissioned to accomplish a manufacture of the celebration and bought compensated for people services, like to manage and create the key occasion, roadshows, and so on. I'm the founding father of the SATMA Awards; I am the 1 who must be compensated for building the strategy based upon affordability and what Mageza decides.”
The NLC has handed a dossier of its investigation into the Specific Investigating Device (SIU). It has questioned the SIU to investigate four distinctive lottery-funded assignments that been given grants among Oct 2020 and could 2023, plus the payment to G4 Brothers.
The NLC has also questioned the SIU to probe alleged “double dipping” in many years in which funders besides the NLC also chipped in to help fund the awards.
This features a grant of R400,000 from the National Heritage Council and just more than R62,000 from “SABC Mobile” in 2020 - exactly the same monetary year in which the party gained Just about R2.6-million in lottery funding and R13.five-million through the Mpumalanga Division of Society, Athletics and Recreation (MDCSR).
MDCSR funded the awards towards the tune of around R41-million immediately after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for 3 many years, starting during the 2020/21 economic 12 months.
The Mpumalanga government’s funding for SATMA in excess of that interval was significantly higher than grants to every other organisation for cultural assignments and gatherings.
The MDSCR gave R3.five-million to SATMA from the 2019/twenty fiscal 12 months ahead of ramping up its contribution soon after signing the arrangement to host the awards more than the next a few several years.
The whole spending budget submitted to the NLC when Mageza utilized for your disputed 2023 SATMA funding was R1.two-million. But of this, only R500,000 was allocated for the particular staging in the party. Other line things in the funds included R400,000 for “personnel salaries and Added benefits”, R200,000 for “stipends” and R100,000 for “vacation.”
The awards had been held on 15 December with the Durban Global ตรวจ Convention Centre. Mageza suggests it urgently wants the blocked grant to pay for the event’s assistance providers.
The SATMA awards, which have been to start with held in 2006, are staged above two evenings and it is actually unclear how the tens of millions in grants from your NLC, MDCSR and various funders were spent.
Desmond Msomi, the chairman of Mageza, did not reply to unique questions from GroundUp, such as the price of staging a SATMA awards ceremony.
As a substitute, he claimed: “Your inquiries are famous. Nonetheless, we have already been advised because of the NLC that this make any difference is currently being investigated through the SIU. Hence, we are unable to reply to your queries until we're recommended which the investigation continues to be concluded and the quantity owed has been paid to Mageza.”
Right after Mpumalanga “gained the appropriate” to host the awards for 3 yrs, the then provincial Society, Activity and Recreation MEC, Lindiwe Ntshalintshali, described it as “a boon” for your province.
“Hosting the SATMA Awards has good economic spinoffs with the Mpumalanga coffers and In addition it talks into the Section’s mandate of selling social cohesion.”