Dawn Thandeka King has had enough, “I Have Not Been Paid. I Want My Money”
Well, the drama is far from over and several actors are coming out guns blazing for KZN awards organisers. Despite the awards being held late last year award-winners are yet to receive their prize money.
She has been silent of late about the issue surrounding her unpaid prize money but seasoned actress Dawn Thandeka King has finally taken a swipe on the organizers of the awards.
Diep City actress Dawn Thandeka King has had enough and she is finally speaking out. The former Uzalo actress, who is well-known for her role as MaNgcobo on the SABC1 telenovela, has put the KZN Entertainment Awards event organisers on blast.
Dawn won an award for Best Actress in December last year at the inaugural awards ceremony which was held at the Durban ICC. The award was supposed to be accompanied by a sum of R100 000, but the actress says she has had to fight to get her money, subsequently only receiving R20 000 of the prize money.
Dawn Thandeka King has had enough, “I Have Not Been Paid. I Want My Money”
However, word of the street has it that the actress has gotten several empty promises from the organisers who had promised her that payment would be made by March.
“This event was held in December last year, I was told that my payment would be made in March, but up until now I haven’t received anything. There was a situation that forced me to move from Durban to Gauteng, I explained to the organisers how much I need this money. They promised to make a deposit as soon as possible but that didn’t happen.,” Dawn was quoted as saying.
“When I lost my father last month, I called one of the organisers Mhlonishwa Gumede and told him that I need the money. I even sent male messengers to speak to him as he would’ve taken me for granted because I am a woman but still he refused to pay me,” Dawn explained.
She further explained that Mhlo Gumede (husband to Zandi Khumalo and former Mabala Noise publicist) then promised to pay her a sum of R50 000 in order to cover her father’s funeral expenses, but only R20 000 was paid into her account.
“Well I resumed with the preparations as I thought I had an amount of R50 000 that’s waiting for me. I was shocked when I received only R20 000. I ended up owing some people. Honestly I told them to ask Mhlo for their money as he’s the one who promised to pay me my cash and urged me to continue with preparations,” she added.
The KZN Entertainment Awards were plagued with negativity even before the event itself last year. Radio personality Hulisani Ravele slammed the event when prize money was announced, question where all of these millions would come from.