Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha,

Below are the few interesting facts about Bongekile Simelane:

  1. Her real name is Bongekile Simelane.
  2. Her song, Wololo, which features Big Nuz’s Mampintsha, is the fourth most played local song on South African radio.
  3. She is signed to Mampintsha’s West Ink label, and is also severely devoted to it and its parent company, DJ Tira’s Afrotainment.
  4. Her stage name means “the famous Babes,” and she says when she was born, there was a group called The Babes and she had eyes like one of its members, which her father always referred to and said “Lo uw’Babes’ (this one is Babes).” The ‘Wodumo’ came because she used to do dancing, acting, soccer, athletics, and was good at them all and became famous for them.
  5. She grew up in Lamontville with her grandmother and in a flat in Durban’s CBD with her parents
  6. She started the West Ink Dance Academy that gets kids off the streets and onto the stage with her.
  7. She has said Wololo is about telling people not to let fun get them so intoxicated that they don’t know where or how they ended up sleeping where they slept.
  8. She feels that she is the first woman to put gqom (a dance sub-genre from Durban) into the music industry, and is a self-proclaimed gqom star.
Cassper Nyovest and Nadia Nakai

Nadia Nakai is a female rapper best known as African Rap Queen.


Here are facts you didn’t know about Nadia Nakai:

1. Nadia Nakai was born in South Africa but with Zimbabwean origins.

2. Nadia Nakai’s full name is Nadia Nakai Kandava.

3. She found her love for Hip Hop and Rap music at the age of 16 and recorded her first studio song when she was 18.

4. She was featured on Hype Magazines 2011 issue.

5. Nadia Nakai’s debut single “Like Me” was officially released on the 3rd of September 2013.

6. Nadia Nakai’s first record label which was signed under Sid Records, is owned by Psyfo.

7. She is the first female winner of Shiz Niz’s mixtape 101.

8. Nadia Nakai was a judge at SABC1 Hiphop show called Battle Stations.

9. She was featured on 5fm’s DJ C-Live’s “Taste Makers Mixtape”.

10. She sung under Cassper Nyovest’s record label, Family Tree.