{"id":1357,"date":"2014-04-30T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2023-01-02T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:45:29","slug":"10-things-know-leleti-khumalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/10-things-know-leleti-khumalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Leleti Khumalo Biography – Age, Husband and Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leleti Khumalo is a South African Zulu actress who is well recognized for her role as Sarafina in the popular movie and stage play of the same title; Sarafina.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leleti is also known for other major movies that she has starred in such as “Hotel Rwanda” and “Yesterday” as well as TV shows including Uzalo<\/em> and Imbewu: The Seed. <\/i>She has been active in the film industry and other entertainment fields since 1988 and continues to act to date in spite of some of the challenges she has faced.<\/p>\n

The Early Life Of Leleti Khumalo And How Sarafina Made Her Famous<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Leleti was born on March 30, 1970, in KwaMashu Township, north of Durban in South Africa. She was brought up alongside her three siblings mainly by her mother, Theressa Tanyiso-Khumalo as she lost her father at the age of 3.<\/p>\n

Although she grew up in abject poverty with a domestic laborer mother trying to make ends meet for her and her siblings, Leleti found joy in performing since she was a very little child. In fact, she was described as a born performer. To develop her skills in performing, she joined a youth background dance group known as Amajika.<\/p>\n

She auditioned for the Mbongeni Ngema musical in 1985, which was to be the global blockbuster Sarafina.<\/em> Leleti performed the role of Sarafina on stages in South Africa and on Broadway. Her excellent performance won her 1988 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She was also awarded NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in 1987. The dynamic performer recorded all these achievements when she was still a teenager.<\/p>\n

In the 1992 film version of Sarafina by Darrell James Roodt, Leleti Khumalo featured alongside Miriam Makeba, John Kani, and Whoopi Goldberg. The movie was well-received internationally, making it the largest film production to be released on the African continent at the time.\u00a0 After the movie, Khumalo released her first musical album, Leleti and Sarafina <\/i>in 1993. The album was dedicated to Mohammad Ali.<\/p>\n

Sarafina tells the story of a student in 1976, who managed to rise up against apartheid in Soweto. It also includes horrible accounts of youths being tortured by the South African police where some even disappeared and have never been heard of. Until Leleti got into the auditions of the play, she had rarely considered the injustice of apartheid. She thought that it was normal and natural for a black person to stay poor. This film gave her much of the fame she has until today and earned her several awards. Leleti also starred in Sarafina 2 in 1997. The movie was re-released in South Africa in 2006 to mark the 30th anniversary of the youth uprising in Soweto.<\/p>\n

In 2004,\u00a0<\/strong>Leleti Khumalo starred in Hotel Rwanda<\/em>, which is an American historical drama film based on a real-life story during the Rwandan genocide during the spring of 1994. In the same year, she starred in ‘Yesterday’, a film which tells the story of a young mother (Leleti) called Yesterday, who was faced with AIDS. The film \u201cYesterday\u201d scooped an award for the Best Film in the Pune International Film festival in India. The film also received good reactions in Toronto International Film festivals.<\/p>\n

After the film Yesterday, Leleti worked on a TV soapie called Generations, which she joined the cast in the year 2005. This soap is greatly known in South Africa and has been one of the most successful films of its type in the region. It is also one of the longest-running South African soap operas. In the soap, Leleti played Busiwe Dlomo, who was a serious refined woman heading her own publishing company in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Her most recent appearances were in works such as Free State<\/i> and Cry for Love\u00a0<\/i>which were both released in 2016 as well as the TV show, Imbewu: The Seed<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n

After her exit from Generations, Leleti secured herself a presenter job in one of the South African radio stations called Vuma FM. She is now working as a radio presenter at Vuma FM.<\/p>\n

What Happened To Her Hands and Face?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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