The Lottery has stopped a grant to your lavishly funded once-a-year SATMA awards. Illustration: Lisa Nelson (SATMA emblem superimposed over first illustration)
From 2019 to 2022 the South African Traditional Audio Awards gained about R16-million with the Lottery.
However the Lottery has withheld payment of the 2023 grant next an investigation.
The NLC has requested the Particular Investigating Device to probe alleged “double dipping” in yrs in which funders apart from the NLC also chipped in to help fund the awards.
The size of funding for the yearly two night time occasion is astonishing.
The Mpumalanga government has funded the awards with about R41-million right after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for three several years, starting during the 2020/21 financial 12 months.
This continues to be In combination with Lottery funding.
The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) is refusing to pay a R1.2-million grant it in the beginning approved for an annual common music awards ceremony. Precisely the same event also acquired tens of countless rand from your Mpumalanga provincial federal government.
From 2019 to 2022 the NLC awarded numerous grants totalling Virtually R16.4-million to your Mageza Heritage Foundation, the organisers of your yearly South African Traditional New music Awards (SATMA).
But it really halted the payment of a 2023 grant immediately after an inner investigation.
GroundUp has uncovered massive corruption while in the NLC that passed off till the earlier board and management was replaced in 2022. The new NLC Management is seeking to thoroughly clean up the corruption in the past.
The NLC’s investigation focused on each the 2023 funding and earlier grants awarded to Mageza to phase the awards. The investigation also probed a payment of in excess of R718,000, allegedly paid from Lottery cash to G4 Brothers, of which Dumisani Gobe, the founder of the SATMA awards, is a director.
Questioned if Mageza paid out G4 a licencing or some other charges to phase the awards, Goba mentioned: “G4 was commissioned to accomplish a creation of the occasion and bought paid for those products and services, like to handle and deliver the principle celebration, roadshows, etcetera. I'm the founding father of the SATMA Awards; I am the 1 who must be compensated for producing the principle based upon affordability and what Mageza decides.”
The NLC has handed a file of its investigation on the Specific Investigating Unit (SIU). It's got requested the SIU to analyze 4 unique lottery-funded initiatives that obtained grants concerning October 2020 and could 2023, and also the payment to G4 Brothers.
The NLC has also requested the SIU to probe alleged “double dipping” in years the place funders apart from the NLC also chipped in that will help fund the awards.
This includes a grant of R400,000 through the Countrywide Heritage Council and just around R62,000 from “SABC Mobile” in 2020 - a similar economic yr where the party been given Pretty much R2.six-million in lottery funding and R13.five-million with the Mpumalanga Office of Society, Athletics and Recreation (MDCSR).
MDCSR funded the awards on the tune of above R41-million immediately after it “was awarded the best” to host the SATMA awards for three decades, beginning during the 2020/21 money yr.
The Mpumalanga federal government’s funding for SATMA over that period of time was substantially bigger than grants to every other organisation for cultural initiatives and occasions.
The MDSCR gave R3.5-million to SATMA during the 2019/20 monetary 12 months prior to ramping up its contribution soon after signing the arrangement to host the awards about another a few decades.
The full finances submitted to your NLC when Mageza utilized with the disputed 2023 SATMA funding was R1.2-million. But of this, only R500,000 was allotted for the particular staging from the event. Other line products inside the funds provided R400,000 for “personnel salaries and Rewards”, R200,000 for “stipends” and R100,000 for “vacation.”
The awards ended up held on 15 December at the Durban Global ตรวจ สลาก Convention Centre. Mageza suggests it urgently desires the blocked grant to pay the celebration’s support vendors.
The SATMA awards, which had been to start with held in 2006, are staged above two evenings and it is unclear how the tens of thousands and thousands in grants in the NLC, MDCSR and various funders had been put in.
Desmond Msomi, the chairman of Mageza, didn't respond to distinct thoughts from GroundUp, such as the expense of staging a SATMA awards ceremony.
Instead, he stated: “Your concerns are mentioned. Nonetheless, we have already been suggested from the NLC this subject is currently being investigated through the SIU. Therefore, we simply cannot respond to your thoughts right up until we are recommended which the investigation is done and the amount owed has become compensated to Mageza.”
After Mpumalanga “won the best” to host the awards for 3 decades, the then provincial Society, Sport and Recreation MEC, Lindiwe Ntshalintshali, described it as “a boon” for your province.
“Hosting the SATMA Awards has constructive economic spinoffs to the Mpumalanga coffers and What's more, it talks to your Section’s mandate of selling social cohesion.”