Record label Open Mic says it has paid popular musician Makhadzi over R7.9 million in the three years she has been contracted with it.
The label also claims to have paid the singer, real name Ndivhudzannyi Ralivhona, a R300 000 advance for a deposit towards her house in August 2021.
Open Mic has slapped the musician with a letter of demanding, requesting her to retract comments she made over the weekend on social media claiming that the label had not paid her a cent for her albums including Khokhova and African Queen which were released with it.
In the letter of demand, which was sent to her legal representatives Letseku Attorneys and her personal email on Wednesday, the record label claims that the muso lied about not being paid.
“We hold instructions that your client, Ms Ndivhudzannyi Decorate Ralivhona, has engaged in various social media tirades against our client, wherein your client published and repeated defamatory and damaging statements about our client, going as far as alleging mistreatment at the hands of our client and its representatives. These allegations are false and are denied,”
The letter continues: “Your client alleges that she is or was being treated like a “slave” and was not paid a single cent. These allegations are patently false and defamatory.”
“We annex hereto a schedule of some of the payments advanced by our client to yours, totalling an amount of R7,956,084,86 as well as another payment of R3005000.OO made by our client to “TW Property” under...
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