Vuyo wades into a deodorant stink
Nathi Olifant
HE IS Durban’s answer to the British celebrity spin doctor Max Clifford. Now Vuyo Mkhize and his company Kapital Mindz are embroiled in a multi-million-rand lawsuit instituted by Unilever.
The suit stems from Mkhize’s role in a flopped competition to promote Unilever’s men’s deodorant, Axe, with a prize of a holiday in Ibiza, Spain for winners. Prize winners, journalists and celebrities were left seething after the trip failed to materialise when their private jet – dubbed AxeJet – failed to arrive.
Unilever is demanding R4.6 million in damages from Mkhize, his company Kapital Mindz, and one of the directors, Rachel Mosia. Kapital Mindz and Mosia are the first and second defendants respectively.

Mkhize has done PR work for the likes of suspended police commissioner Bheki Cele; beleaguered ex-CEO of Ithala, Sipho Shabalala; taxi boss Mandla Gcaba; former cop-turned-businessman S'bu Mpisane and his wife Shauwn; KwaZulu-Natal government



