The Democratic Alliance (DA) has expressed its displeasure with the eThekwini Municipality’s decision to sponsor multimillionaire Shauwn Mkhize’s soccer team, Royal AM FC.
The party said it was not okay to spend taxpayers’ money on wealthy Mkhize, who recently purchased an R16 million Rolls-Royce, during a virtual meeting of the municipality’s Executive Committee on Tuesday.
The DA suggested she sell one of her expensive cars to raise money for her own team according to a report by IOL. Exco had been asked by the city to authorize a sponsorship and collaboration with Royal AM FC worth R15.7 million over the next three years, or around R5.25 million each year.
Nicole Graham, the leader of the DA caucus, has rejected the plan, saying that the owners of Royal AM are already incredibly wealthy and insinuating that they don’t need the funds.
“To tell the people of the city that we will use millions of their money to sponsor those who are this wealthy, is not about the development of the city, but mismanagement of funds,” she said.
Meanwhile, MaMkhize seems unbothered and took to social media to share that family is the most important thing in her life in another report by IOL. Over the weekend, the “KwaMam’Mkhize” star and businesswoman shared a series of photos with her family, including her son Andile Mpisane, at famed groove hangout Konka in Soweto
