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Storm around the Hawks spokesperson’s Lotto grant By Anton van Zyl The national spokesperson for the Hawks, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, came under scrutiny the past week with calls that he be suspended and that an investigation be launched into a R3 million Lotto grant that his foundation has received. In July this year, the Limpopo Mirror reported that the Hangwani Mulaudzi Foundation had received Lottery funding to build a “sports
centre” at Mukondeni village in the Mashamba area. The grant was paid out by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) in July last year and work only began sometime late in June, almost a year after the grant had been paid out. The foundation, which was registered in 2017, has since changed its name to the Bono Foundation. Nothing much happened at the site between the payment date and when a journalist contacted Mulaudzi about the project in early June
this year. Soon after that, work began at the site, according to a source in the area who asked not to be named as he feared for his safety if his identity was revealed. A reporter for the Limpopo Mirror was invited to visit the site on 24 June, where he met with Mulaudzi. Mulaudzi explained that the project had been delayed because he first had to engage the Mashamba village leadership and members of the community to obtain land where the facility could be built. This process
In June this year, when Limpopo Mirror visited the site at Mukondeni village, work had just commenced.
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was concluded in September 2019 and the project could commence. However, construction was badly affected by the Covid-19 lockdown period, he said. Mulaudzi’s explanation for the delay was strange, as the NLC’s funding processes require that a site would have to identified before funding is approved. During Mirror’s visit on June 24, the workers were busy with the finishing touches on the newly erected barbed-wire fence around the field. A grader was busy levelling the pitch, while an unequipped borehole had already been sunk. Electricians were busy wiring a ablution block that comprised seven toilets. A number of local residents were waiting at the site for Covid-19 relief packages, which included masks and food, to be distributed. Photos sent to the newspaper this week show that a netball court has since been erected and grass planted on the field. The ablution facilities are still incomplete, with loose wiring visible in the photos. “This is a rural area and carrying out a project in an area like this is quite expensive,” Mulaudzi said. “So far, it seems we have under-calculated the project cost, because we are now using monies from our own pockets to complete it, and that might come to anything between R300 000 and R500 000,” he said. “Even the food parcels, sanitisers and masks which we are handing out today here are all from our own pocket because we are now left with nothing from the fund.” - Continues on p2
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