The Exclusive Tribunal has dismissed an application by Marubini Ramatsekisa, former Countrywide Lotteries Commission Main hazard officer, for getting access to his R1.7-million pension gain.
The First get blocking access was granted in December 2023.
The judge dismissed Ramatsekisa’s application to hold the buy rescinded.
The Exclusive Investigating Unit has fingered Ramatsekisa for his purpose inside of a R4-million grant into a shelf enterprise, Zibsicraft, for just a review to help the development of your Khoisan language.
R2.2-million of this, the SIU states, went to buy house for the Higher Grace Christ Redeemer Church, represented by previous NLC Board chair Alfred Nevhutanda, and his wife.
Former National Lotteries Fee (NLC) chief danger officer Marubini Ramatsekisa has failed in his bid to overturn an order from the Particular Tribunal blocking entry to his pension funds.

The First หุ้น ชอง 9 purchase was granted in December 2023 following allegations that Ramatsekisa orchestrated a plan that resulted during the NLC getting rid of about R4-million. He was suspended in September 2022 and subsequently resigned.

Ramatsekisa sought to rescind or change this buy, professing it absolutely was sought “erroneously” and granted in his absence.

But Unique Tribunal member Decide David Makhoba has dismissed his software and verified the interdict granted in favour from the Specific Investigating Device (SIU).

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Judge Makhoba also ruled that Ramatsekisa have to pay the costs of the application.

In his modern judgment, he reported the SIU had obtained an order preserving the pension advantage, about R1.seven-million, held by Liberty Life following an ex parte (all at once to the opposite aspect) application.

The premise with the interdict was that he experienced caused a lack of R4-million on the NLC.

It had been alleged that Ramatsekisa ready a proposal for “proactive funding” to conduct a review to help the development of your KhoiSan language.

The funding — R4 million — was awarded to a corporation identified as Zibsicraft.

The SIU alleges that Ramatsekisa lied about contacting a stakeholder from your Office of Arts and Culture and he did not make sure Zibsicraft’s software for grant funding went through the typical procedures. He did not ensure that the folks affiliated with that organisation experienced any hyperlinks towards the KhoiSan community or had at any time finished any work associated with the Group.

Decide Makhoba claimed the SIU had also alleged that Ramatsekisa experienced employed precisely the same approach in awarding a R5.five-million grant for building cricket during the Northern Cape.

These funding initiatives were not assessed, evaluated or adjudicated by a distributing agency, but by previous NLC Main Operations Officer Phillemon Letwaba and himself.

Letwaba signed the grant arrangement on behalf of your NLC and Ramatsekisa signed as his witness.

Ramatesekisa submitted that the interdict must be reconsidered and put aside.

He explained there was no proof that he had colluded with the NLC to siphon funds from it. He had only carried out his administrative duties along with the SIU had not manufactured out a scenario that he was an “active and inclined facilitator”.

Judge Makhoba explained in these applications, the proof contained from the SIU software was “deemed from scratch”. The take a look at was whether the SIU experienced manufactured out an excellent circumstance for your interdict it attained while in the ex parte application.

He mentioned there have been “shortcomings” within the fashion where Ramatesekisa had handled the funding of the Zibsicraft issue. Zibsicraft had no credible money statements, normal processes weren't adopted, and also the so-named “Khoisan Local community backlink” didn't exist.

“The evidence before me indicates which the grant resources weren't employed for the supposed intent and demonstrates a prima facie situation that the applicant facilitated the unlawful grant awards. He failed to gainsay the factual allegations produced towards him,” Choose Makhoba claimed.

SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago stated the Preliminary interdict were obtained “swiftly” soon after Ramatsekisa resigned and wrote to his pension fund administrator, giving observe that he intended to withdraw his pension reward.

Dealing with the allegations, he mentioned before long after the proactive funding was accredited for that Khoisan project, a few individuals acquired and have become administrators of Zibsicraft non-profit organisation, a dormant, shelf organization. Ten days later, the corporation produced an application for your funding.

“The application was accompanied by financial statements prepared for the intervals ending 28 February 2018 and 28 February 2019. On the other hand, the non-income organisation only opened a checking account on 19 March 2019, 6 days just before it used for funding,” Kganyago mentioned.

“The SIU uncovered that on the R4-million, R2.two-million allegedly went toward acquiring assets for any 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 give to buy it.”

He mentioned the SIU also intended to institute civil proceedings in opposition to Ramatsekisa to Recuperate damages endured through the NLC as a consequence of his carry out.