Progress in getting the National Lottery restarted has passed a ”major milestone”, Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa said on Wednesday.
Only ”shoe-shine work” remained to be done, although there was no date yet for when the lottery would resume, he told reporters in Pretoria.
Mpahlwa said this emerged from a written response from the National Lottery board to certain queries he had made.
”We are currently processing the responses we have received from the National Lottery board.”
Mpahlwa said the ”big bulk of the work” had now been done.
The minister suspended the lottery at the end of March this year after the Pretoria High Court ruled the award of the lottery contract to preferred bidder Gidani was flawed. — Sapa