The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture has unleashed a can of worms thanks to the instructions of the department's newly appointed minister Gayton McKenzie.
McKenzie ordered artists, sports stars and creatives who received funding from the department be named publicly, with the reasons and the amounts thereof.
Makhadzi was the first artist to be named on Tuesday night. The Limpopo singer received R230,000 in performance fees from the department in the past 14 months.
However, McKenzie tweeted, which has become his favourite thing to address issues, that Makhadzi was not is not a recipient of grant funding of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture but delivered a service, clarifying the confusion.
It appears the minister had been responding to complaints by Makhadzi that she receieved no government assistance for her trip to the US, where she returned with a BET Award.
