Mohau Cele

Cele was raised in Soweto but born in Matatiele in 1977. She can speak English, Sesotho, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa and Setswana. She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand.[1]

Mohau Cele as Bongi on-line in MTV Shuga Alone Together in 2020

Her first acting role was with MTV Shuga which she joined in season 4 as Bongi.[1] She got the audition because they were looking for a singer. She had done some acting at university, but her first professional acting job involved travelling from South Africa to Nigeria where series 4 was filmed over six weeks.[2] The edutainment series was backed by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF.

She was a recurring character in the series Thuli noThulani for SABC in 2017 where she played Vince Principal.[3]

She was in series 4, 5 and 7 of MTV Shuga and she was included when it went into a mini-series titled MTV Shuga Alone Together highlighting the problems of Coronavirus on 20 April 2020. The series was written by Tunde Aladese and broadcast every week day - its backers include the United Nations.[4] The series will be based in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire and the story will progresses using on-line conversations between the characters. All of the filming will be done by the actors[5] who include Lerato Walaza, Sthandiwe Kgoroge, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Mamarumo Marokane and Jemima Osunde.