The Lottery has stopped a grant to your lavishly funded once-a-year SATMA awards. Illustration: Lisa Nelson (SATMA logo superimposed in excess of initial illustration)

From 2019 to 2022 the South African Traditional New music Awards gained in excess of R16-million from your Lottery.
Nevertheless the Lottery has withheld payment of the 2023 grant pursuing an investigation.
The NLC has asked the Exclusive Investigating Device to probe alleged “double dipping” in a long time where by funders aside from the NLC also chipped in that will help fund the awards.
The scale of funding to the yearly two evening celebration is astonishing.
The Mpumalanga government has funded the awards with above R41-million immediately after it “was awarded the ideal” to host the SATMA awards for 3 decades, commencing from the 2020/21 money 12 months.
This has become Besides Lottery funding.
The Nationwide Lotteries Fee (NLC) is refusing to pay a R1.two-million grant it to begin with accepted for an once-a-year classic music awards ceremony. A similar function also received tens of an incredible number of rand from the Mpumalanga provincial federal government.

From 2019 to 2022 the NLC awarded quite a few grants totalling Virtually R16.4-million to your Mageza Heritage Basis, the organisers of your once-a-year South African Traditional Music Awards (SATMA).

Nevertheless 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 clear up the corruption from the earlier.

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

Questioned if Mageza paid G4 a licencing or some other service fees to phase the awards, Goba stated: “G4 was commissioned to try and do a creation of the party and got paid for all those companies, like to control and make the leading celebration, roadshows, and many others. I am the founding father of the SATMA Awards; I'm the one particular who has to be compensated for making the idea dependant on affordability and what Mageza decides.”

The NLC has handed a dossier of its investigation to the Exclusive Investigating Unit (SIU). It's asked the SIU to research 4 various lottery-funded initiatives that received grants involving Oct 2020 and May 2023, and also the payment to G4 Brothers.

The NLC has also asked the SIU to probe alleged “double dipping” in a long time wherever funders in addition to the NLC also chipped in to assist fund the awards.

This includes a grant of R400,000 from your National Heritage Council and just above R62,000 from “SABC Mobile” in 2020 - the identical economic yr by which the event been given Pretty much R2.6-million in lottery funding and R13.five-million with the Mpumalanga Division of Culture, Athletics and Recreation (MDCSR).

MDCSR funded the awards for the tune of over R41-million immediately after it “was awarded the correct” to host the SATMA awards for 3 many years, starting during the 2020/21 economic 12 months.

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

The MDSCR gave R3.5-million to SATMA inside the 2019/20 monetary year prior to ramping up its contribution right after signing the agreement to host the awards over another 3 many years.

The total spending plan submitted on the NLC when Mageza applied with the disputed 2023 SATMA funding was R1.2-million. But of the, only R500,000 was allocated for the actual staging of your function. Other line items while in the spending budget provided R400,000 for “staff salaries and Advantages”, R200,000 for “stipends” and R100,000 for “journey.”

The awards were being held on fifteen December at the Durban Worldwide ผล หวย ลาว วัน นี้ Convention Centre. Mageza suggests it urgently demands the blocked grant to pay for the occasion’s company companies.

The SATMA awards, which ended up initial held in 2006, are staged in excess of two evenings and it is unclear how the tens of hundreds of thousands in grants with the NLC, MDCSR as well as other funders had been invested.

Desmond Msomi, the chairman of Mageza, did not respond to specific concerns from GroundUp, including the expense of staging a SATMA awards ceremony.

Instead, he reported: “Your thoughts are observed. On the other hand, we are already suggested by the NLC this make a difference is being investigated because of the SIU. Consequently, we cannot respond to your thoughts right up until we've been advised that the investigation has actually been completed and the amount owed has become compensated to Mageza.”

After Mpumalanga “won the proper” to host the awards for three a long time, the then provincial Tradition, Sport 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 Furthermore, it talks for the Department’s mandate of advertising social cohesion.”