ZAKHENI Ma Afrika (ZMA), one of the grant beneficiaries of the National Lotteries Commission, has filed an urgent court application in the Pretoria High Court to prevent the Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel from publishing the list of organizations receiving money from the Lotto.
The organization’s Vice-President, Shaun Mpho Lanto, says in court papers filed in the high court on Thursday that Patel’s decision to publish the names of grant beneficiaries would be in contravention the National Lotteries Act, as well as Regulation 8 (1).
Lanto adds that the ‘unlawful’ dissemination of information poses a real danger for grant beneficiaries and that the Act forbids the NLC from releasing this information to the public’.
In court papers seen by Inside Politics, the non-profit organization based in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, is requesting the court to prevent Patel from disclosing personal details of the applicant, including the personal
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