JohannesburgMcKenzie visited Blu Label’s Sandton offices throughout 2025 and April.
Ticketpro sells tickets exclusively for cricket and football bodies McKenzie’s department oversees.
The buyer is a consortium linked to his Patriotic Alliance, and his former chief of staff, Bakang Lethoko, is now CEO.
McKenzie denies any role in the deal and calls Blu Label’s founders, the Levy brothers, longtime friends.
Blu Label has not said when the consortium first approached it.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- documents repeated Sandton visits by McKenzie to Blu Label during the Ticketpro sale, tying the buyer to his former chief of staff and to future F1 ticketing
Sources: Daily Maverick