South Africa, Dec. 29 -- The money came from a R15m grant to the Presley Chweneyagae Foundation via the Southern African Youth Movement (SAYM).The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) grant was intended to fund an anti-drug themed musical, Taking Back the Future. It was meant to tour three provinces, but it only ran for five nights at a small venue in the Free State.

SAYM received over R67.5m for lottery-funded projects. Both SAYM and Alfred Sigudla, its executive director, have featured prominently in a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into corruption involving lottery grant funding. The SAYM grants were also supposed to build an old-age home, a drug rehabilitation centre. Neither are operational.

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