The Unique Tribunal has dismissed an application by Marubini Ramatsekisa, previous Countrywide Lotteries Fee Main danger officer, to receive use of his R1.7-million pension reward.
The Preliminary order blocking access was granted in December 2023.
The choose dismissed Ramatsekisa’s application to possess the order rescinded.
The Distinctive Investigating Unit has fingered Ramatsekisa for his function in a R4-million grant to your shelf organization, Zibsicraft, for a review to assist the development of the Khoisan language.
R2.2-million of the, the SIU says, went to order property for the Higher Grace Christ Redeemer Church, represented by former NLC Board chair Alfred Nevhutanda, and his wife.
Previous Countrywide Lotteries Fee (NLC) chief danger officer Marubini Ramatsekisa has failed in his bid to overturn an buy via the Unique Tribunal blocking access to his pension money.
The Preliminary ตรวจ รางวัล buy was granted in December 2023 following allegations that Ramatsekisa orchestrated a scheme that resulted during the NLC losing about R4-million. He was suspended in September 2022 and subsequently resigned.
Ramatsekisa sought to rescind or fluctuate this buy, saying it was sought “erroneously” and granted in his absence.
But Particular Tribunal member Decide David Makhoba has dismissed his application and confirmed the interdict granted in favour in the Particular Investigating Unit (SIU).
Go through the judgment
Judge Makhoba also dominated that Ramatsekisa will have to pay back The prices of the application.
In his current judgment, he said the SIU experienced acquired an order preserving the pension profit, about R1.7-million, held by Liberty Life next an ex parte (all at once to the other aspect) software.
The idea with the interdict was that he had prompted a loss of R4-million on the NLC.
It absolutely was alleged that Ramatsekisa ready a proposal for “proactive funding” to carry out a analyze to assist the development in the KhoiSan language.
The funding — R4 million — was awarded to a firm called Zibsicraft.
The SIU alleges that Ramatsekisa lied about getting in contact with a stakeholder with the Section of Arts and Lifestyle and he did not be certain that Zibsicraft’s application for grant funding went with the regular processes. He didn't be sure that the men and women linked to that organisation had any one-way links to your KhoiSan Neighborhood or experienced ever performed any perform associated with the Local community.
Choose Makhoba mentioned the SIU experienced also alleged that Ramatsekisa experienced utilized the exact same method in awarding a R5.5-million grant for producing cricket in the Northern Cape.
These funding tasks were not assessed, evaluated or adjudicated by a distributing agency, but by former NLC Main Functions Officer Phillemon Letwaba and himself.
Letwaba signed the grant settlement on behalf of your NLC and Ramatsekisa signed as his witness.
Ramatesekisa submitted which the interdict need to be reconsidered and put aside.
He claimed there was no evidence that he had colluded with the NLC to siphon revenue from it. He experienced only carried out his administrative obligations as well as SIU had not made out a scenario that he was an “active and keen facilitator”.
Decide Makhoba said in these programs, the proof contained inside the SIU software was “considered from scratch”. The take a look at was whether the SIU had manufactured out a good situation to the interdict it attained in the ex parte application.
He stated there were “shortcomings” inside the method through which Ramatesekisa had handled the funding in the Zibsicraft issue. Zibsicraft had no credible monetary statements, regular procedures weren't followed, and the so-called “Khoisan Group url” did not exist.
“The proof prior to me implies the grant resources were not used for the meant purpose and displays a prima facie case that the applicant facilitated the illegal grant awards. He didn't gainsay the factual allegations created from him,” Judge Makhoba mentioned.
SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago claimed the Original interdict were obtained “swiftly” right after Ramatsekisa resigned and wrote to his pension fund administrator, offering detect that he meant to withdraw his pension gain.
Addressing the allegations, he said before long once the proactive funding was authorised for that Khoisan job, 3 folks acquired and have become directors of Zibsicraft non-profit organisation, a dormant, shelf enterprise. Ten times later on, the organization built an application with the funding.
“The appliance was accompanied by economical statements well prepared with the intervals ending 28 February 2018 and 28 February 2019. Having said that, the non-earnings organisation only opened a banking account on 19 March 2019, 6 times just before it utilized for funding,” Kganyago claimed.
“The SIU found that in the R4-million, R2.2-million allegedly went in direction of obtaining assets for just a church named the upper Grace Christ Redeemer Church. The previous NLC Board Chairperson, Alfred Nevhutanda, and his wife, Mrs Tshilidzi Rachel Nevhutanda, represented the church while in the offer you to get it.”
He mentioned the SIU also intended to institute civil proceedings versus Ramatsekisa to Get well damages suffered from the NLC because of his perform.