 Mzwatmbili slams Minister Nathan Pethwa for tarnishing his name. Popular poet and activist, Mzwatmbili has set the record straight after Minister Nathan Pethwa's recent comments during an interview on SAFM claiming that he had received R-12 M from the government in the past three years. Speaking to F5 News, Mzwak said it was unfair that the Minister was tarnishing his name by making these claims without him being given the right of reply. Pethwa was asked about opera singer Savaneel and Goma and other arts practitioners who slept for four days at the Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture, DSAC, entrance. Instead of providing the required answers, he dropped my name out of context. My name was used as a scapegoat by Nathan Pethwa without the right to reply, he said. This is not the first time that Mzwak has accused the Minister of using him as a scapegoat when addressing the media. In October this year, an article was published in the Star newspaper about the ANC owing him R-700,000 for his involvement in the Caster C-menya collaboration album by various SA artists in 2010 approved by the late Jackson Mthumbu and Winnie Madicca's Ella Mandela. It is an open secret that the ANC owes me. In 2010 at Ludmilae House I was asked by the late Minister in the presidency Jackson Mthumbu to movie Lisa SA artists in defense of athlete Caster C-menya after she won the gold medal in Berlin. Nathan Pethwa was not there in 2010. Pethwa has deliberately distorted the truth, twisted the facts. In Chwissa LIV he reached out to Department of Sport, Arts and Culture Spokesperson Masikaba and Lovya for comment on the matter, she said the department still stood by the statement it issued on October 5. We are a caring government. Mr. Mbili is a living testimony of this. For the past five years, DSAC has supported Mr. Mbili financially to the tune of R-12M for various projects. Through the Presidential Employment Stimulus Program, PESB, the president has ensured that artists have received R-272M out of R-285M meant for artists, precisely because the president understands the importance of the creative sector read the statement. Ms. Watanbili has denied the claim saying, if I have received 12 million the SA Revenue Service, SARS, must step in, please. The 12 million is ambiguous and misleading. Mbethwa must tell the truth. Using my name in the media won't derail the much-awaited Presidential Employment Stimulus Program, PESB, 350 million final report.