The Lottery has stopped a grant towards the lavishly funded annual SATMA awards. Illustration: Lisa Nelson (SATMA emblem superimposed about initial illustration)

From 2019 to 2022 the South African Common Tunes Awards acquired more than R16-million from the Lottery.
However the Lottery has withheld payment of your 2023 grant subsequent an investigation.
The NLC has questioned the Unique Investigating Device to probe alleged “double dipping” in years the place funders other than the NLC also chipped in to help you fund the awards.
The dimensions of funding with the annual two night occasion is astonishing.
The Mpumalanga govt has funded the awards with about R41-million after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for three many years, commencing in the 2020/21 financial calendar year.
This has actually been In combination with Lottery funding.
The Nationwide Lotteries Commission (NLC) is refusing to pay for a R1.2-million grant it in the beginning accredited for an annual regular songs awards ceremony. The same celebration also received tens of a lot of rand in the Mpumalanga provincial govt.

From 2019 to 2022 the NLC awarded several grants totalling Virtually R16.four-million to your Mageza Heritage Basis, the organisers of the annual South African Conventional Songs Awards (SATMA).

Nonetheless it halted the payment of a 2023 grant soon after an inner investigation.

GroundUp has exposed huge corruption within the NLC that happened till the previous board and administration was replaced in 2022. The brand new NLC leadership is seeking to cleanse up the corruption in the earlier.

The NLC’s investigation focused on both of those the 2023 funding and previously grants awarded to Mageza to phase the awards. The investigation also probed a payment of more than R718,000, allegedly paid out from Lottery funds to G4 Brothers, of which Dumisani Gobe, the founder of the SATMA awards, is often a director.

Asked if Mageza paid G4 a licencing or some other service fees to phase the awards, Goba stated: “G4 was commissioned to perform a creation of the party and got paid for those providers, like to handle and generate the principle function, roadshows, and so on. I am the founding father of the SATMA Awards; I am the 1 who should be compensated for creating the thought dependant on affordability and what Mageza decides.”

The NLC has handed a dossier of its investigation to the Specific Investigating Unit (SIU). It's questioned the SIU to investigate 4 different lottery-funded initiatives that received grants amongst Oct 2020 and May 2023, together with 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 includes a grant of R400,000 in the National Heritage Council and just more than R62,000 from “SABC Mobile” in 2020 - exactly the same economic year in which the party been given 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 soon after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for 3 years, starting during the 2020/21 economic 12 months.

The Mpumalanga government’s funding for SATMA above that period of time was significantly bigger than grants to any other organisation for cultural tasks and activities.

The MDSCR gave R3.5-million to SATMA inside the 2019/20 economic yr prior to ramping up its contribution right after signing the agreement to host the awards around the subsequent 3 many years.

The total finances submitted on the NLC when Mageza applied for that disputed 2023 SATMA funding was R1.2-million. But of this, only R500,000 was allotted for the actual staging with the occasion. Other line merchandise while in the spending budget included R400,000 for “personnel salaries and Gains”, R200,000 for “stipends” and R100,000 for “journey.”

The awards were being held on fifteen December in the Durban Global หวย ลาว ออก วัน นี้ สด Conference Centre. Mageza states it urgently needs the blocked grant to pay the party’s provider providers.

The SATMA awards, which ended up initial held in 2006, are staged about two nights and it can be unclear how the tens of millions in grants through the NLC, MDCSR and other funders have been expended.

Desmond Msomi, the chairman of Mageza, didn't reply to unique concerns from GroundUp, including the expense of staging a SATMA awards ceremony.

As an alternative, he reported: “Your inquiries are observed. Having said that, we have been encouraged because of the NLC that this matter is remaining investigated with the SIU. Consequently, we cannot reply to your questions until eventually we are recommended which the investigation is done and the amount owed is paid out to Mageza.”

After Mpumalanga “won the best” to host the awards for 3 decades, the then provincial Society, Activity and Recreation MEC, Lindiwe Ntshalintshali, explained it as “a boon” with the province.

“Web hosting the SATMA Awards has favourable financial spinoffs to the Mpumalanga coffers and In addition it talks into the Section’s mandate of advertising and marketing social cohesion.”