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This delay has left non-governmental organisations like Childline, the South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB), the SA Federation of Mental Health Society "in a mess".

Childline, which helps abused children, was struggling to make ends meet, with its CEO Joan Naicker revealing to Sowetan yesterday that this has forced its provincial centres to slash some programmes.

"Some of our offices have not received any funding because the NLB has not invited applicants. We would like to see the NLB opening an application process for funding. It's been 18 months without money," said Naicker.

She said therapeutic services and outreach programmes, particularly in the most under-resourced province of North West, had been canned as a result.

SANCB CEO Jace Nair pleaded with the NLB to allow applications, saying the organisation was finding it hard to continue with their projects provincially and had resolved to drastically cut costs to survive.

The organisation, which was yet to receive the R30-million funding requested last year, could no longer support community-based rehabilitation, literacy and sports projects in Limpopo, while other provinces could barely get by and relied on previous funding from other sponsors.

NLB spokesman Sershan Naidoo confirmed as stated in their website that there were currently no calls for new applications. Naidoo said while they would like to make a call for new applicants at least once year, the requests were exceeding the budget.

He explained that their board had requested R32-billion from the national Treasury.

"We would request applications once all backlogs are cleared." - Nhlabathih@sowetan.co.za

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Jul 27, 2012

Pointman

The lottery is another e f f e n mess created by the government. The charities should band together and go to the constitutional court to get the lottery declared unconstitutional and then they should each be allowed to run their own lottos.
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Jul 27, 2012

mthosam

Bad news all Naidoos,naickers Nairs, shabires, maharajas, Rajahs are cry, no mosotho, moshangane movhenda, andmolobedu crying. How much are thye taking home.
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Jul 27, 2012

MommaC

Don't even mention that other deserving charities have had their funding cut by up to 60%.

Ironically, the funding to useless organisations (such as pingpong), for which those sitting on the board have ties to, has increased.
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Jul 27, 2012

Mrazane

There is no backlog, our looters are busy registering non-profit organisations so that they will put in applications for the money whilst worthy well established organisations are sidelined and left to die off together with the communities that they serve. @Pointman, you are absolutely right, the charities must litigate against the lotto and to think that they now have a draw of one kind or another 4 times a week that is a lot of money, there is no backlog collecting the money but there is a backlog distributing it...I smell a big dead rat here...
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Jul 27, 2012

mesip

Maybe I'm being naive but from my personal observation the queues of people playing LOTTO have shrunk drastically compared to when LOTTO started. My (naive) conclusion is that NLB is not making Sales as it used to thus does not have sufficient money to distribute.The frequency of guaranteed winnings is rapid, signalling desperation on the part of NLB to me In short LOTTO has failed in SA because people now realize that chances of winning are close to zero.
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Jul 27, 2012

Shredder

Are there any real LOTTO Millions winners out there?
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Jul 27, 2012

truthhurt

Oh so greedy. i will never play the Lotto for as long as i live.
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Jul 27, 2012

Bhali

What? 32 Billion? Really.....And yet Nebutanda had the guts to give her daughter more than 40 million rand to stage a festival in London. To those who dont know, Nebutanda is not just a professor and NLB chairperson. He is also a pastor. He must hang his head in shame. When Uthingo was running the Lotto we never this stories.
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Jul 27, 2012

Bhali

Just went to the National Lotteries Board website "http://www.nlb.org.za/general-public/our-management-team.html" .....Nevhutanda is also the CEO. No wonder this is all happening
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Jul 30, 2012

Obzam

something that has to do with gambling there's always mafias and foul-play.
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