Alfred Nevhutanda

The Special Investigating Unit has obtained a preservation order to freeze a R27 million luxury property linked to the former chairperson of the National ...

It is surrounded by a high wall with an electrified fence. The main house includes six bedrooms, six bathrooms and four garages. "At the time of the acquisition of the property, Professor Nevhutanda was both the director of Vhutanda Investments and the chairman of the board of the NLC."

Under Alfred Nevhutanda's tenure as chairperson of the Lottery board there was grand-scale corruption.

Also named as respondents in the preservation order are several people who were involved in the hijacking of the WAR_RNA and using it to successfully apply for Lottery grants. Despite the millions it received in grants, the rehab is still unfinished. Rather than being direct beneficiaries, some of these companies were contracted as service providers by the NLC, or by non-profits that received Lottery funding. Several of the parties involved have appealed, but judgement is yet to be handed down by the Tribunal. - WAR_RNA is a dormant NPOthat was hijackedand used to successfully apply for R28.3-million in funding between 2017 and 2020 to build an old aged home in the North West. Like five other Lottery-funded old age homes and four drug rehabs, construction is still not finished and none are yet operational. The GroundUp investigation uncovered evidence that the money was paid over a six-month period, between September 2017 and March 2018, directly to Couzyn Hertzog & Horak Attorneys, a law firm acting for the seller of the property. We have been unable to ascertain what project this funding was for. Also included in the order are two private companies. GroundUp revealed earlier this year how non-profit organisations that had received Lottery grants contributed millions of rands, both directly and indirectly, to help pay for Nevhutanda’s lavish R27-million mansion. According to official company records, Nevhutanda is the sole director. These include two Lottery-funded old age homes and a drug rehabilitation centre that have never been completed. Judge Naidoo also ordered a “review and setting aside” of the decisions by the NLC to grant funding to five non-profits, which between them received tens of millions of rands for infrastructure projects.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on Monday said it has obtained a preservation order to freeze a luxury property owned by Vhuthanda Investment, ...

“Immediately after funding was received, the NPOs transferred money to a legal firm for the purchase of the property and the furniture,” said the SIU. The SIU said its probe revealed that the property was funded by NPOs with the money they have received, under the auspices of grant funding, from National Lotteries Commission. “The property was allegedly bought for approximately R27 million with money from National Lotteries Commission,” said the SIU.

Former National Lotteries Commission chairperson Professor Alfred Nevhutanda. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it will institute civil action against ...

“At the time of the acquisition of the property, Professor Nevhutanda was both the director of Vhutanda Investment and chairman of the board of the NLC. The SIU investigation has revealed that the acquisition of the property was funded by the non-profit organisations with monies they had received under the auspices of grant funding from the National Lotteries Commission,” says Kganyago. This comes after the SIU obtained a preservation order to freeze a luxury property owned by Vhutanda Investments, a private company of which Nevhutanda was the sole director. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it will institute civil action against former National Lotteries Commission Chairperson Professor Alfred Nevhutanda and Vhutanda Investments.