The Media Diversity and Development Agency, marred by squabbles at the top, spends over 35% of its income on staff and administration.
, the agency must spend a maximum of 25% of its budget on employee costs, and 75% on grants and related expenses.
For 2021/22, the MDDA originally budgeted R47 million in grant expenditure and almost as much in employee, board, and administration costs. And yet despite the high employee costs the MDDA still does not always manage to disburse all the revenue it receives for grants. In 2019/20 it ran a surplus of R21 million, disbursing almost R40 million less in grants than it had budgeted.
In comparison, the National Arts Council CEO earns R1.85 million, and the NAC disburses more than R400 million in funding a year, yetThere are also concerns about the leadership of the MDDA. Its Chief Executive Officer Zukiswa Potye was suspended by the board in April in a controversy over Chief Financial Officer Yaseen Asmal’s contract.
According to the City Press report, leadership squabbles at the MDDA go back to 2013, with a 2014 forensic report finding irregularities in the MDDA’s management. For example, in 2017 acting CEO Donald Liphokothat he had been intimidated after addressing mismanagement at the MDDA. Liphoko had been appointed by Communications Minister Ayanda Dloldo after a long leadership void at the MDDA. The board of the MDDA was also inquorate at the time. The MDDA went through six acting CEOs in 2017.
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