The Lottery has stopped a grant to the lavishly funded yearly SATMA awards. Illustration: Lisa Nelson (SATMA logo superimposed about unique illustration)

From 2019 to 2022 the South African Traditional Audio Awards obtained in excess of R16-million in the Lottery.
However the Lottery has withheld payment on the 2023 grant adhering to an investigation.
The NLC has asked the Unique Investigating Device to probe alleged “double dipping” in decades wherever funders in addition to the NLC also chipped in that can help fund the awards.
The size of funding for the yearly two night time function is astonishing.
The Mpumalanga federal government has funded the awards with around R41-million just after it “was awarded the proper” to host the SATMA awards for three yrs, beginning inside the 2020/21 money calendar year.
This is in addition to Lottery funding.
The Countrywide Lotteries Fee (NLC) is refusing to pay a R1.2-million grant it to begin with accredited for an annual conventional music awards ceremony. The identical event also been given tens of a lot of rand through the Mpumalanga provincial authorities.

From 2019 to 2022 the NLC awarded several grants totalling Pretty much R16.4-million to your Mageza Heritage Basis, the organisers on the once-a-year South African Traditional Audio Awards (SATMA).

But it halted the payment of a 2023 grant immediately after an inner investigation.

GroundUp has exposed significant corruption while in the NLC that passed off till the past board and administration was changed in 2022. The new NLC leadership is trying to cleanse up the corruption of 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 about R718,000, allegedly paid out from Lottery funds to G4 Brothers, of which Dumisani Gobe, the founding father of the SATMA awards, is often a director.

Requested if Mageza paid G4 a licencing or another costs to phase the awards, Goba mentioned: “G4 was commissioned to complete a manufacture of the party and acquired compensated for all those products and services, like to control and generate the most crucial event, roadshows, and so on. I am the founder of the SATMA Awards; I am the a single who needs to be compensated for generating the strategy based on affordability and what Mageza decides.”

The NLC has handed a dossier of its investigation for the Distinctive Investigating Device (SIU). It's asked the SIU to investigate 4 diverse lottery-funded projects that been given grants involving October 2020 and will 2023, plus the payment to G4 Brothers.

The NLC has also asked the SIU to probe alleged “double dipping” in decades the place funders other than the NLC also chipped in that will help fund the awards.

This includes a grant of R400,000 within the Nationwide Heritage Council and just about R62,000 from “SABC Cell” in 2020 - the identical economical year wherein the occasion acquired almost R2.6-million in lottery funding and R13.five-million within the Mpumalanga Office of Culture, Sporting activities and Recreation (MDCSR).

MDCSR funded the awards towards the tune of over R41-million right after it “was awarded the best” to host the SATMA awards for three many years, beginning in the 2020/21 economical 12 months.

The Mpumalanga govt’s funding for SATMA above that interval was considerably higher than grants to some other organisation for cultural tasks and events.

The MDSCR gave R3.5-million to SATMA while in the 2019/twenty economical calendar year ahead of ramping up its contribution just after signing the settlement to host the awards over the next three many years.

The whole spending plan submitted to the NLC when Mageza used to the disputed 2023 SATMA funding was R1.2-million. But of the, only R500,000 was allocated for the particular staging of your party. Other line goods from the price range provided R400,000 for “personnel salaries and benefits”, R200,000 for “stipends” and R100,000 for “vacation.”

The awards had been held on fifteen December at the Durban Worldwide ผล หวย หุ้น Conference Centre. Mageza states it urgently requirements the blocked grant to pay for the event’s assistance providers.

The SATMA awards, which ended up first held in 2006, are staged in excess of two evenings and it is unclear how the tens of thousands and thousands in grants through the NLC, MDCSR together with other funders had been spent.

Desmond Msomi, the chairman of Mageza, did not respond to certain inquiries from GroundUp, including the cost of staging a SATMA awards ceremony.

As an alternative, he explained: “Your inquiries are mentioned. Nonetheless, we are already encouraged by the NLC this make any difference is staying investigated because of the SIU. Consequently, we can't reply to your queries until we have been encouraged that the investigation has long been finished and the quantity owed has been paid out to Mageza.”

Immediately after Mpumalanga “received the proper” to host the awards for three several years, the then provincial Lifestyle, Activity and Recreation MEC, Lindiwe Ntshalintshali, described it as “a boon” to the province.

“Web hosting the SATMA Awards has favourable financial spinoffs for that Mpumalanga coffers and In addition it talks towards the Department’s mandate of advertising social cohesion.”