Sport, arts & culture minister Gayton McKenzie has kept his public commitment to donate his entire salary to worthy causes and has provided details of the amounts donated and the beneficiaries.
So far he has donated R345,000.
The details were supplied in a written answer to a parliamentary question by EFF MP Sinawo Thambo.
“While what happens with my ministerial salary is, in fact, a private matter, I am happy to share the details of how these funds have been disbursed to date from my swearing in as a minister,” McKenzie said.
“I did indeed undertake not to benefit personally from my salary and the amounts have been paid out.
“I truly appreciate the interest that honourable member Thambo has shown in what happens to my personal salary and I hope that the member will continue to be as interested in what I spend my own money on in future. Perhaps, in time to come, we can compare notes on what the honourable Thambo spends his salary on too," the minister said.
At end-June, after deductions McKenzie received R63,081 and paid out R40,000 to Kagiso Art Gallery/Nkosinathi Khumalo, R10,000 to Themba Ntaka and R10,000 to Maria Letebele.
At the beginning of August, the minister received R99,321 and paid out R100,000 to Hond Se Baas Spinning Initiative. In mid-August he received R105,516 and in that month donated R100, 000 to Weet Jou Ma Jy Spin. At end-August he received R17,575 and in mid-September R105,516 and donated R60,000 to the Cheslin Kolbe Charity Auction, R10,000 to Heatherdale Secondary School and R10,000 to Mankule Funeral.
In mid-October the minister received R105,516 and donated R5,000 to Jolyn Phillips for a trip to Moscow for the Brics summit.
McKenzie said the balance in his account was now R121,685 which remained for distribution still to be determined.
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