The chief executive of the National Lotteries Board, Vevek Ram, has resigned, the board confirmed on Friday.

“The chairman of the National Lotteries Board, Professor Alfred Nevhutanda, regrets to announce that the board has accepted the request for early retirement by the board’s CEO, Professor Vevek Ram, with effect 1 April 2012.”   

The board said in a statement Ram would hand over to Nevhutanda for the next two months “to ensure the smooth running of operations” until a suitable replacement was found.

Ram had been a board member with the NLB since its inception in 1998.

He was appointed as chief executive in 1999.

Before joining the NLB, he was a professor in computer science and information systems at the then University of Natal.

“Nevhutanda expressed sadness at the early retirement of Prof Ram and acknowledged the contribution of Prof Ram to SA’s first National Lottery and the setting up of various structures at the board,” the NLB said.

“He assures the lottery playing public and the many applicants for funding that there will be no interruption in the services offered by the National Lotteries Board.”   

Democratic Alliance spokesman Jacques Smalle said Ram’s resignation was a step in the right direction.

“Mr Ram presided over a prolonged period of mismanagement and administrative chaos,” he said.

“In the last year especially, the NLB has begun operating increasingly like an ANC slush fund even as deserving charities and NGOs struggled to access funding.”   

Smalle said the distribution agencies and NLB had been stacked with ANC cadres for some time. Many of them needed to be replaced with individuals who had the relevant expertise.

“Before a fundamental transformation can take place, the current  management will have to be replaced. A forensic audit into all grants allocated in the last three years is also a vital requirement,” he said.

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Jan 20, 2012

nevus

he is kak rich then wa tshaba.
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Jan 20, 2012

tumzangwana

DA spokesman Jacques Smalle said: “This is a step in the right direction.”
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moes o jele zaka, e ne a ka e se buse moes.

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Jan 20, 2012

MommaC

Guaranteed he has done this to avoid prosecution or having to go through a disciplinary hearing where truths would come out.

I wonder where he will be 're-deployed' to or if he has made enough money from the table tennis kickbacks?
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Jan 20, 2012

nwanawahaya231

thanks God the guys left, he was a manace to NLB employees, he once dismissed all employees who was against him
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Jan 20, 2012

Sinudeity

Lotto is how you tax the poor.
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Jan 20, 2012

PleaseGetReal

Sinudeity
Lotto is how you tax the poor.
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well said
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Jan 20, 2012

MORNACHIES

Let him go and f@ck himself !!!!!.......o re jele motho woo !!!!
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Jan 20, 2012

rasefatee

Ram. is he an indian? if so please the hawks investigate him. It remind of Guptus group they are first men on the moola
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Jan 21, 2012

RockyBell

"Tatta ma chANCe"!!!!
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Jan 21, 2012

Quickfix

Let him go and set the hawks on his tale. He must join the rest either in jail or i hospital. They is so much corruption is this country, people are not even affraid to ambessle funds intended for those less fortunate, greed is like cancer.
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