Dear Mrs Patricia De Lille,

I wrote to you an email with attached documents on how international stakeholders are facing corruption at your Convention Bureau for having come to your country South Africa in Cape Town through all compliance, processes, procedures, instructions and approval for an international event project with approved funding support and then on baseless accusations by misrepresentations of all documents of the event project by officers of the bureau, we have been denied the same approved funding support of ZAR505,000 for an investment of over ZAR1.5 m with several international stakeholders, employed local SMEs, local entrepreneurs and local well known stakeholders in your country and done the same approved international event successfully in Western Cape Province Cape Town.

We urge you to look into this matter urgently as we didn't come to your country to face such corruption ways by officers of your bureau, mistrust and unreliable business dealings for an international event project successfully done in your country following lots of constraints and mistreatments from your Convention Bureau to be denied the same approved funding support suddenly on false accusations and misrepresentations of all our documents. It must be mentioned that we worked with various schools, companies, entrepreneurs, SMEs for this event project in Cape Town and South Africa as a whole. Our international event was termed otherwise by misleading statements by your Convention Bureau officers yet we did live broadcast of event and run Scan QR codes to have a live database of the audience. Our documents were even falsified by your officers and it was mentioned that we failed in our obligations. But I would like to tell you that from start to finish, our documents were falsified, misrepresented to your Convention Bureau by the same officers. We were astonished how come a governmental institution working in a legal parameter can do such illegal act of corruptions. We came to your country grouping over 20 international and local stakeholders in Africa yet we have been taken for granted as international stakeholders. Our documents and information on the international event project done were distorted in so many ways from start to finish. SANCB officers travel to countries abroad for meets to convince international stakeholders to invest in South Africa in millions yet we have to face corruption in an amplified manner in your country as international stakeholders. We never thought that being registered companies in respective countries and having gone through all processes, procedures, instructions and compliance requirements with your officers at your Convention Bureau, we will be faced with so much corruption. It is high time that you act on such corruption within your ministry and condemn such officers for their illegal acts for being government officers.

We rely on your support to get this matter sorted at earliest and that we are provided the approved funding support to be able to ease our artists, artisans, SMEs and various stakeholders on this project.

We hope that our email with all documents and proofs have been taken into consideration and that serious actions shall follow to provide international stakeholders justice for an international event project successfully done in your country.

Thank you.