Khanyi Mbau Biography
Khanyi Mbau is a South African actress, television host, and artist. She shot up in fame and became a household name as the second Doobsie in the SABC 2. Soap opera Muvhango (2004-2005) as Mbali in the SABC 1 soap opera Mzansi and SABC 1’s mini-series After Nine. As of 2018, she is the host of the entertainment show The Scoop, The Big Secret on BET Africa and plays Tshidi on Mzansi Magic’s Abomama.
Khanyi Mbau Age
She was born on the 15th of October, 1985 in the Florence Nightingale Hospital in Johannesburg and given the official name Khanyisile Mbau. She is 33 years old as of 2019.
Khanyi Mbau Family
Her mother, Lynette Sisi Mbau, worked in the finance department of the pension fund at Barclays Bank. Mbau’s father Menzi Mcunu was not married to her mother at the time as the couple was only dating. She has a younger half-sibling, Lasizwe Dambuza, who is also an entertainer in the capacity of an actor, radio and T.V. personality.
Khanyi Mbau Ex-Husband/Daughter
She was married to Mandla Mthembu from 2006 to 2009. She got romantically involved with Mandla Mthembu former Robben Island Inmate who is a (multi-millionaire) in 2005 when he was 50 years old. They got married on July 2006. In 2007, they announced that they were living apart after the South African Music Awards. Incident at Sun City which involved Mandla Mthembu accusing Khanyi of infidelity and gold-digging, In 2007 the couple reconciled.
In 2008 the reports of financial turmoil begin to emerge in the wake of delayed payments of Lamborghini’s. Warrant of arrest for Mandla Mthembu after he allegedly failed to pay maintenance for his two daughters with his former wife Dolly Matshabe and they separated in 2009.
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This union made Khanyi a mother. Khanyi Mbau’s daughter, Khanukani Mbau, is being groomed by her mother to be a queen. According to the Zodwa Wabantu biography, Mandla Mthembu dated the contentious dancer and socialite after their split.
Khanyi Mbau Theunis Crous
In October 2009 Mbau was in a romantic relationship with 51 years of age development big shot Theunis Crous who had recently gotten her a BMW Z4. Then after a year, In January 2010, Theunis took a break from the relationship and reclaimed his BMW Z4.
Khanyi Mbau Tebogo Lerole
After eight years of dating, Khanyi Mbau and Tebogo Lerole ended their relationship in 2018 in emotional fashion. They got together with Tebogo Lerole in July 2014. Both are still attached in the midst of gossipy tidbits asserting that the duo is putting on a show to be as one. But Rumor has it that the pair have rekindled their romance again.
Khanyi Mbau Kelly Khumalo
TV personalities Khanyi Mbau and Kelly Khumalo were reportedly involved in a physical fight at a hair salon in Rivonia. Kelly came out on top by getting in the last blow. Not sure what the reason for the brawl was!
Kelly went on to publicly apologize for slapping Khanyi on Khanyi’s talk show, Katch it With Khanyi.
Khanyi Mbau Porsche
Khanyi Mbau Career
Mbau grew up loving arts, so she joined the South African entertainment industry. She gained fame in 2004 after she was cast as the replacement of Lindiwe Chibi for the character Doobsie in Muvhango from 2004. The former actress left the show after she was shot by her boyfriend. Khanyi played the role until the following year when she was fired because her partying was interfering with work. She did not give up because later, in 2006, cast in the second season of Mzansi as Mbali on SABC 1. Mbau also featured in the mini-series After Nine on SABC 1 as well. She played the character Zee on the mini-series After 9 on the same channel in 2007.
In 2012, she was a guest judge on the second season of Turn it Out on SABC 1. In 2013, she featured in one episode of Ekasi: Our Stories, a drama series on E.tv. She was later featured in the documentary I Am by DStv Vuzu and acted as Sindisiwe Sibeko in the mini-series Like Father Like Son on Mzansi Magic. August 2012 was monumental for her as she released her biography, Bitch, Please! I’m Khanyi Mbau, which was authored by media personality Lesley Mofokeng.
2013 was also a big year for her because she was part of E.tv’s docu-reality series Reality Check. She also debuted her talk show. Katch It With Khanyi, on eKasi+. Her talk show earned renewal for its second season in late 2014 after gunning an extensive viewership of over 785,000 in the first term. By November 2014, the show had over 1.6 million viewers and was nominated for the South African Film and Television Awards in 2015.
The extroverted Khanyi was a contestant in the 7th edition of Strictly Come Dancing, but she and partner Quintus Jasen were eliminated after seven weeks due to inadequate votes from the public. In mid-2015, Khanyi won MTV Africa’s lip sync battle. The same year, she played pinky, a supporting role, on E.tv’s Ashes to Ashes. In 2018, she began hosting BET Africa’s show The Big Secret and played Tshindi in Abomama on Mzansi Magic. The actress has also played Palesa Simelane in Umlilo, hosted The Weekend Show and The Scoop alongside Phat Joe on SABC 3 and features as Dinekile on SABC 1’s Uzalo.
Besides being on TV, Khanyi has also appeared in movies. The first was Happiness is a Four-letter Word that premiered in February 2016. In the feature film, she played Bheki’s wife, Zaza, who owns a shoe store. Due to her excellent performance in the movie, she was listed among the top 10 actresses in the Johannesburg Film Festival. Her second film was 2018’s The Red Room. She also featured in Frank and Fearless that was produced by Leon Schuster.
Khanyi was also a radio show host on Metro FM for one year. She landed the show alongside Ntombi Ngcobo and Somixi Mhlongo in July 2016. The enterprising Khanyi is also a business person. In late 2018, she launched I am Khanyi, a brand of Gin. This Millenial Shimmer Gin is packaged in a pink bottle that has some writing in gold. The liquor began selling countrywide in December 2018.
Khanyi Mbau Net Worth
Khanyi’s net worth is estimated to be $10 million. Her fortune is the result of hard work and dedication as an actress, businesswoman, and show host.
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Khanyi Mbau Songs
- Igwinya
- Shake
- Ubobalela
- Izondo
- La ‘Weyi
- Sthandwa Sami
- Dunusa
- I Miss You
- Red Shoes
- Skheshekheshe
- Cina
- Do Me
- Crazy
- Intro
- Happiness
- Again
- Slay
Khanyi Mbau Dancing
Khanyi Mbau Cancer
It was a rumor that she has skin cancer.
Khanyi Mbau Lamborghini