This is what has fans furiously posting.
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TV producer and founder of Generations, Mfundi Mvundla, is in the spotlight because one of the soapie’s actors is demanding royalties. Fans on X had this to say:
@ntsikimazwai My generation of TV executives are going to end up like Mfundi Vundla. They don’t come in and change the exploitation, they join the whites in exploiting black talent. Then later on the whites spit them out of the TV industry.
@ZikalalaZa40456 Wrong! Once a broadcaster commissions your idea it’s theirs. The progress of the show and remuneration is decided by the channel based on advertising income. Royalties are more music-based than TV. The owner gets royalties, not the cast; they get a performance fee.
@lesmorgp Unfair. He pre-sold the IP. He no longer has the right to share it. And the money was gone long before he turned most of them into household names. They should have negotiated better. Perhaps ask for marketing rights. Something. But Mfundi’s was the wrong door to knock on.
@EndaUsome Some executives enter the system to change it, but too often they simply learn its rules until the system reminds them they were never the owners.
@LubhaZa White education teaches Black people to talk and behave like Whites. One can barely listen to Mfundi Vundla speak about any subject. He’s an arrogant bastard.
@PaulMzilankatha Mfundi Vundla is this old? I thought he was a good-looking grootman mos.
@hymnfortaiwa Mfundi Vundla was not “targeted” by black actors on some elaborate witch-hunt. He became too rich to speak up for a common pain that unites us all as the black marginalized people; structural inequalities, and reminded all of them that they are just products he extracts value from.
@MO_kAtz7 They were employed by him and he’s lying. Zolisa Xaluva, in an interview on YouTube, said they were actually fighting for salaries. It had nothing to do with royalties. Those people know the royalties thing isn’t a problem. Why would they fight him? He’s a liar.
@__Kabza Seeing all the Mfundi Vundla hate tweets and I feel so vindicated because I listened to that interview live and immediately concluded that he’s not a good person.
@ross_rori Mfundi Vundla is greedy. So many years of nonsense production, but he fights because he is a comrade.
@Mditshwer I supported Mfundi Vundla from day one, when all of them were fired. Being employed is very simple. If you think you can do better somewhere else, why are you here? You go.
@Staphill After watching the interview with Mfundi Vundla on #947DriveWithThando, it kinda made me feel sad for actors but I still can’t help but think actors need to start looking at their craft differently. Even though they are in the same creative industry as musicians, they are not creatives. They are hired to just act. They don’t come with the idea, they don’t write the script. They just come in, read a script on camera, and they are done. When they say royalties, what do they mean? Royalties for whose work? Musicians, on the other hand, come up with the idea, write lyrics, and perform their song. That’s why they get the royalties.
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