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The National Lotteries Board (NLB) will today descend on South Africa’s Diamond City, Kimberley, to host a Post Indaba Stakeholder Engagements (PISE), Charlotte Mampane, the Chief Executive of the NLB announced today.

The focus of this year’s forum is “Corporate Governance of NLB funded beneficiaries”. It is the NLB’s vision to be the Catalyst of Social Upliftment” thus contributing to the National Development Plan priorities of poverty alleviation and job creation.

“The primary objective of PISE is to establish a permanent platform to encourage on-going dialogue between the NLB and its current and potential stakeholders”. Furthermore, the aim is to (on behalf of the NLB Board of Directors) educate the public regarding grant application processes in line with the provisions of the Lotteries Act, says Mampane.

The Sol Plaatjie Local Municipality will host 2015’s second round of these annual provincial consultations. The Premier of the Northern Cape Province, Ms. Silvia Lucas and the Executive Mayor of Sol Plaatje Municipality, Mr. David Molusi (Cllr) will be in attendance.

A major event highlight will be the handover of cheques and grant agreements of recently adjudicated grant funding applications.

The NLB receives 34% of the National Lottery ticket proceeds to distribute toward social upliftment. “We try to ensure that each province receives 5% percent of the total funds budgeted for distribution in each sector. In the current financial year, the Northern Cape has been allocated over R35 million rand for distribution to good causes within the sectors of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Sports and Recreation, Charities and other sectors catered for within the NLB’s mandate,” adds Mampane.

Mampane says this year’s PISE will include a presentation on the implications and significance of the NLB’s transition to National Lotteries Commission (NLC), which will come into effect from 01st April 2015.

The transition was brought about with the aim of emphasizing the NLB’s role as a regulator, without diminishing the weight of its role as a catalyst for social upliftment, concludes Mampane.

Issued by National Lotteries Board