The Limpopo-born musician and songwriter Candy Tsa Mandebele Mokwena of Kalawa Jazme was promoting herself in media houses around City of Mbombela on Friday.
“Im here to introduce my new single “Siku ne siku” #daybyday featuring Noni D which is only two months old,” she says, adding that she is “really surprised by the way people respond and accept” her music.
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Here are eight things you don’t know about Candy:
• She has worked at a tea farm in Tzaneen, earning R180 a month
• She fell pregnant at 17, and at 20 had another child
• Her firstborn died in a car accident
• She is a grandmother to a seven-year-old
• Her hairstyle bears a traditional symbol, worn by women of the Bolobedu tribe – it symbolises that she is of age and ready to be made a wife
• She suffers from Type 2 diabetes
• She is loving and kind
• She founded the Candytsamandele Foundation to help needy children.
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