{"id":201088,"date":"2025-06-28T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-watch-where-must-my-family-do-business-zimbabwe-asks-sa-deputy-president-mashatile\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:48:07","slug":"zimbabwe-watch-where-must-my-family-do-business-zimbabwe-asks-sa-deputy-president-mashatile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-watch-where-must-my-family-do-business-zimbabwe-asks-sa-deputy-president-mashatile\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Watch | &#8216;Where Must My Family Do Business &#8211; Zimbabwe?,&#8217; Asks SA Deputy President Mashatile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Deputy President Paul Mashatile has denied any political interference in <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africaninsider.com\/news\/goldrush-backed-consortium-announced-as-next-lottery-operator\/\" rel=\"noopener\">awarding South Africa&#8217;s lucrative national lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings<\/a><\/em>, whose shareholders include Bellamont Gaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">According to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/mashatile-denies-family-tied-multibillion-rand-lottery-deal\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Citizen<\/a><\/strong>, Bellamont is co-owned by Moses Tembe and Khumo Bogatsu &#8212; Bogatsu is the twin sister of Mashatile&#8217;s wife, raising concerns over potential conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Sizekhaya was granted the licence for eight years, amid public scrutiny and fears of patronage, especially as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270497.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Paul Mashatile has denied any political interference in awarding South Africa&#8217;s lucrative national lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings, whose shareholders include Bellamont Gaming. According to The Citizen, Bellamont is co-owned by Moses Tembe and Khumo Bogatsu &#8212; Bogatsu is the twin sister of Mashatile&#8217;s wife, raising concerns over potential conflict of interest. Sizekhaya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[4338,258,256,7065,6012,5203,50124,257,2450,254,10745,4686,421],"class_list":["post-201088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asks","tag-deputy","tag-family","tag-mashatile","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watch","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}