In the email, Sedibe said that Motheo could not accept the grant because. Accepting the grant would be tantamount to encouraging fraud because the amount allocated suggests that Motheo's proposal, in which the cost of the sports complex was set at about R61 million, had not been read by the NLC adjudicators, he wrote.
He said the budget for the project was developed in consultation with a construction team, an accountant and community members who would make use of the sports complex.
Nonhlanhla Matshazi, whose company assists non-profit organisations to set up projects and compile funding applications, said she worked with Motheo for three years on a consultancy basis as a project administrator.My role was to help put the organisation's vision into a project proposal and budget.
A source at the Special Investigating Unit , who asked not to be identified as they were not empowered to speak to the media, said the unit was investigating