MINISTER DAVIES ANNOUNCES THE THIRD NATIONAL LOTTERY LICENCE OPERATOR
The
Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies announced today that Ithuba
Holdings (Pty) Ltd is the preferred applicant for the third National Lottery
Licence and that Gidani (Pty) Ltd, the current lottery operator, is the reserve
applicant.
Negotiations
will now commence with Ithuba to conclude a Licence Agreement to operate the
lottery. It’s envisaged
that the negotiations will be finalised during the course of November
2014. The Licence Agreement
will provide for Ithuba to commence operating the lottery on 1 June 2015.
Should
negotiations with Ithuba be unsuccessful, the Minister will commence
negotiations with reserve applicant Gidani for the third National Lottery
Licence.
The
announcement comes after a rigorous bid evaluation process that commenced with
the issue of the Request for Proposal of 11 June 2013. The National Lotteries Board conducted
the bid evaluation and adjudication process. The Minister’s decision made
after consultation with the Board.
Four
applicants submitted applications to the National Lotteries Board by the
closing date of 30 November 2013. Mzansi Games (Pty) Ltd and Grand Lottery
(Pty) Ltd, the two other applicants, informed today that their applications
were unsuccessful.
The
Minister is confident that the process for the award of the third National
Lottery Licence will achieve the objectives in the Lotteries Act and the RFP
for the national lottery in South
Africa
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