Eugene Mthethwa of Trompies says he has paid off Samro debt

EFF MP says there's a bid to stop him from cleaning up the arts

- By Bongani Mdakane [e-mail]

Trompies singer Eugene Mthethwa has paid off a long-standing South African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) debt.

The EFF member of parliament showed Sunday World a settlement agreement he said he and Samro entered into two years ago.

Mthethwa said that he settled the R120000 debt, adding that it was a lie to suggest that he had defrauded Samro in the first place. He said the funds were doled out to his daughter in 2013, who was 19 years old at the time.

"This whole thing had been dragging for many years," he said adding that he knows the people who are peddling the lies about him.