 Bonang Mathaba Biography Things That You'd Never Known Bonang Mathaba, born June 25, 1987, is an award-winning South African TV and radio personality. She is a fashion entrepreneur and the owner of Bonang Mathaba Entertainment. Bonang is best known for co-hosting the SABC Friday Night Music Show, live from 2007 to 2012. She is popularly known as Queen Bee. Bonang Mathaba Age Queen Bee was born on June 25, 1987 in Mahiqen, northwest province of South Africa. She is 32 years old as of 2019. Bonang Mathaba Family Her parents are Charlotte Mokoena and Andrew Gampe Mathaba. They were her biggest role models growing up. Her father, Andrew, was a senior lecturer at the University of Northwest while her mother serves as the Executive Vice President for Human Resource and Corporate Affairs at Seysal. Her parents separated when she was young but she says that despite the family breaking up it never truly affected her. Mathaba has an older sister, Ria Betzwi, who made it to the top three of Miss International South Africa 2018. After her parents split, her mother remarried, giving birth to a son named Thabo. Bonang Mathaba Early Life Bonang's family moved to Johannesburg when she was still a child. She lived in Hillbrough and Soweto's Pimbalee community before making it big in the entertainment industry. Mathaba got a breakthrough when she was 15 when she appeared on television on Manhattan's Fantasy Challenge. After the show, she went back to study and enrolled in a course dealing with marketing at the University of Johannesburg. Bonang Mathaba Education She attended Fourways High School, Johannesburg, and went on to make her a marketing course at the University of Johannesburg. Bonang had to drop out of school due to the pressure that came with the popularity and focus on her career. Bonang Mathaba Boyfriend Mathaba dated record producer and disc jockey Yoponic. Yoponic was charged with assault after it surfaced that he physically assaulted her. She then dropped the charges after the couple reconciled. As she dropped the charges, people had accusations that Mathaba lied about the incident. Bonang Mathaba's relationship with rapper Aka was the talk of the town in 2015. The couple's romance allegedly started while Aka's girlfriend, DJ Zinnal, was pregnant with their first child. Zinnal made the accusation on her blog in a post about their breakup. Both Bonang and Aka denied the cheating claims and threatened to sue. Neither one ever did, and it soon became clear they indeed were a couple. After months of toying with their fans, Aka and Bonang made their relationship official on Instagram in 2016. Their romance ended in late 2017. Bonang Mathaba career After joining Live she became an overnight sensation and the most sought after celebrity in South Africa. She gave herself the title host with the most. Since then, she has had many music and television awards such as South Africa Music Awards, South African Film, Television Awards, Channel O Music Awards and many other beauty pageants like Miss South Africa. In 2008, Bonang launched her clothing line which she called Just Be. She partnered with a retailer called Legit and later on worked with a designer based in London to make handbags. The brand was then called The Baby Star. Then in 2009, she sent a demo tape to a radio station called YFM but was rejected for two years. Later on, she received her show called The Beehive which caught the attention of many young listeners. In 2014, Bonang worked with Woolworths to start a lingerie line called Bonang for distraction. In the very same year, she became the new radio DJ for Metro FM after replacing Saifo Kaze who had initially replaced Azania Mozaka. The front row had many listeners until a dispute took place with the manager pertaining an on-air reshuffle with her rival Laredo Kaganjago without her being notified. She resigned from the radio station the next day. In 2016, she became the ambassador of Sirac Vodka in Africa with a fashion designer called David Trill and other DJs and artists. In 2017, she went to Brazil, and after the trip, she became the African brand ambassador for Ipanema sandals. During her tour in Brazil, she met with the sandal makers and went ahead to shoot an advertisement in Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, a reality show was released called Being Bonang. Later on, the show became very popular since it was airing her day-to-day life. In May 2018, Season 2 was released, and it is available on DSTV Channel 103. Awards 2012, Woman of the Year Readers' Choice, Glamour Awards 2013, Favorite TV Host, You Spectacular Awards 2014, Most Stylish Media Personality, Essay Style Awards 2015, Best South African Radio DJ, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Style Icon of the Year, Essay Style Awards Digital Influencer of the Year, Channel 24 Social Media Awards African Woman of the Year, New African Woman Magazine Bonang Mathaba Book Bonang Mathaba released her best-selling book, From A to B, in 2017. She detailed her journey to stardom in the book and shared some intimate details about her life. Net Worth She has an estimated net worth of $7.2 million. This is expected to have increased with Queen Bee establishing several businesses and the launch of BeMoji, an emoji app. Bonang also has her own lingerie line with Woolworths and a t-shirt line with Superbalist.