Innocentia Makapila was born in Ha-Sinthumele, Venda in Limpopo. She grew up not far away from her birth place Tshiozwi and then moved to Johannesburg to further her studies. She is currently 23 years old and still single. Innocentia is Rendani Mukwevho on SABC 2 soapie Muvhango.

She got her role as Rendani through auditions which were held in Johannesburg 5 years ago. She waited for more than 10 hours on the queue for the auditions. She was very delighted to get her break in the entertainment industry as she has been in matric by the time and was living next to the National School of Arts where she was doing her matric.


Innocentia is currently studying at the University of Johannesburg and just graduated. She is planning to study editing, translating language policy and planning. she was an Applied Linguistics honours student at UJ. She plans to continue with acting as her career as she is passionate about it.

On Muvhango, Rendani is Hangwani Mukwevho’s daughter. The daughter of Albert Mukwevho of the royal family. Her step father Gizara Mukwevho is his father’s brother. Rendani just graduated from university and is now facing the working world for the first time. Her mother has been overprotective on her over the years after the passing away of her father.

Catch Innocentia Makapila as Rendani Mukwevho on Muvhango at 21h00 on SABC 2 from Mondays to Fridays.