Sports, Arts and Culture · PA
Gayton McKenzie
PAR232 680/mo equivalent · 2025/26 refLegacy grade C · evidence review
Gayton McKenzie serves as Sports, Arts and Culture minister (PA). This tracker shows 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference of R2 792 155 per year — R232 680 per month equivalent, effective 1 April 2025. This role reference does not establish the exact package effective from 1 April 2026. A Presidency statement dated 20 January 2026 says a 3.8% National Executive increase takes effect from 1 April 2026; Gazette 53965 itself states 1 April 2025. M4 checked the current Remuneration Commission determination and recommendation libraries, which remain labelled 2025-26 and expose no 2026/27 Executive schedule. Odyssey therefore keeps the exact 2026-effective package unresolved, does not calculate it from 3.8%, and does not assume either official date is a typo. This profile retains a legacy Odyssey A-F scorecard for editorial context, but M3 does not re-certify that grade as a current performance rating. 0 of 3 KPI snapshots are directly reconciled to primary sources; the remaining KPI values and the legacy budget-spend field remain review-required.
Remuneration reference — 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference
Annual package reference
R2 792 155
Monthly equivalent
R232 680
Salary gradeGrade EC — Pay Level 1
Appointed3 July 2024
Statusactive
Department budgetDepartment of Sports, Arts and Culture (Vote 37)
Official vehicleState-allocated vehicle (within R800,000 threshold)
Remuneration source — Government Gazette 53965, Notice 7004
Official gazette · effective 1 April 2025 ↗Presidency announcement: +3.8% from 1 April 2026. M4 found no 2026/27 National Executive determination or recommendation in the checked Commission libraries, so the exact updated package remains pending source reconciliation in Odyssey; it is not derived by arithmetic.
M4 source-cycle status: official-cycle-conflict-no-2026-27-schedule-found
No exact 2026-effective Minister, Deputy President or Deputy Minister package is published by Odyssey from this check. The known 3.8% announcement is shown separately from the exact 2025/26 Gazette schedule.
C
Legacy Odyssey Scorecard · Grade C · evidence review
Grade retained as editorial history; M3 does not translate it into a salary “value for money” verdict.
Odyssey's A-F grades are legacy editorial syntheses, not official government ratings and not re-certified by M3. M3 separates direct primary-source KPI snapshots from legacy unreconciled values; unreconciled targets, traffic lights, budget-spend rates, achievements and failures must not be read as current verified facts.
High visibility but mixed results. School sports expanded, but heritage site upgrades lagging.
Key Performance Indicators
School sports participationReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
2 million learners
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
1.8 million
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Heritage site upgrades completedReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
12 national heritage sites
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
5 completed
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Artist and athlete support disbursedReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
R200 million
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
R185 million disbursed
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Legacy editorial positives
✓School sports programme expanded to 1.8 million learners
✓Secured private-sector sponsorship for national teams
✓Artists Relief Fund distributed R185 million
Legacy editorial concerns
✗Only 5 of 12 heritage site upgrades completed
✗Budget underspending in cultural development programmes
✗Social media controversies distracted from policy work
Legacy budget-spend field
Numeric spend rate not rendered in M3 because the stored percentage has not been reconciled to a direct expenditure record. Legacy source label: National Treasury Vote 37, 2024/25.
Remuneration uses the source-bounded 2025/26 Gazette reference described above. Legacy Odyssey scorecards are editorial and under evidence review; only KPI rows labelled direct primary snapshot were reconciled in M3. Unreconciled budget-spend percentages are not rendered. Independent public-accountability tool — not affiliated with any political party.