Rita Dee Entertainment
Credited phonogram rights holder on Makhadzi's earliest releases (2017-2019); no company register entry or website found.
- Based in
- Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa
- Founded
- 2011, per the founder's own bio on Music In Africa (a separate, lower-confidence Music In Africa directory listing for the same profile says 'in operation since 2019'; that figure looks like a listing-creation date rather than a founding date and is not used here).
Rita Dee Entertainment is the name credited as phonogram rights holder on the earliest commercially released recordings by Makhadzi: nine releases dated 4 May 2017 to 1 November 2019, including her 2019 breakout single and album “Matorokisi”. The credit carries no licence wording, so on its face it is a claim to own those masters rather than to license or distribute them. What became of that interest afterwards is not documented; no reversion, transfer or later credit change has been identified.
The company is tied to Rita Dee Nephawe, who names herself founder/director on a self-submitted Music In Africa professional profile dating the operation to 2011 and placing it in Thohoyandou, Limpopo. That profile, read alongside her stated management and production work for a list of other South African and Zimbabwean acts, is the only account of the company’s services; none of it has been independently reported. No register entry for the company was found under any spelling of the name, and South Africa’s CIPC has no free public name-search this desk can reach, so its legal form, jurisdiction and current trading status are not established.
No website could be confirmed. A domain implied by a director’s social contact email did not resolve on direct lookup, and the company’s only live presences found are social profiles, not a company site.