Minnie Dlamini has been under the microscope over several reports surfacing around a couple of businesses she’s linked to.
Minnie Dlamini businesses under the spotlight
The on-air personality and former wife of Quinton Jones is the subject of online gossip regarding the state of her business dealings in the cosmetic industry.
Recently, an explosive investigative piece published by City Press alleged Dlamini’s skincare business, MD by Minnie Dlamini, has been listed for deregistration by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) due to annual tax return non-compliance.
Dlamini had courted controversy over the founding of the cosmetic business when, in an interview with Destiny Magazine, she claimed to have received an R10 million cash injection from the state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to start the company back in 2019.
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Following the backlash that came with the quote, Dlamini tracked back on her words, indicating that what she meant was she’d “applied for a loan payable with interest, which is still pending due to the error.”
“My apologies for any confusion caused. For the record, the mistake was entirely mine and I apologise further,” she wrote in a tweet.
However, this claim too was contested by IDC spokesperson Tshepo Ramodibe, who, in a statement quoted by City Press, asserted that “Ms Minnie Dlamini has never been a client of the IDC.”
“A company she was associated with approached the IDC for funding in 2018. Following preliminary engagements with the applicant, the IDC did not grant the said business any funds,” Ramodibe said.
News around Dlamini’s skincare business venture returned to the fore of discussion after the 32-year-old launched her lifestyle venue, The Mansion, in Centurion, Gauteng.
“After a few years of turmoil in the industry because of lockdown I want the space to be a place where we put money in the pockets of our artists by booking incredible DJs and performers and celebrating the best of our incredible entertainment industry. It’s all about the vibes at the Mansion,” she wrote in an Instagram post that inferred she was the owner of the business.
As it turns out, social media sherlocks were quick to dig into the background of the entity and found that the venue was listed as the intellectual property of two men, Villiers Mouton and Jan Boot.
