Mohau Cele
Mohau Cele or Mohau Mokoatle-Cele is a South African actress and singer. She played Bongi in MTV Shuga including the 2020 mini-series titled MTV Shuga Alone TogetherLife
Cele was raised in Soweto but born in Matatiele in 1977. She can speak English, Sesotho, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa and Setswana. She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand.
in 2020
Her first acting role was with MTV Shuga which she joined in season 4 as Bongi. She got the audition because they were looking for a singer. She had done some acting at university, but her first professional acting job involved travelling from South Africa to Nigeria where series 4 was filmed over six weeks. The edutainment series was backed by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF.
She was a recurring character in the series Thuli noThulani for SABC in 2017 where she played Vince Principal.
She was in series 4, 5 and 7 of MTV Shuga and she was included when it went into a mini-series titled MTV Shuga Alone Together highlighting the problems of Coronavirus on 20 April 2020. The series was written by Tunde Aladese and broadcast every week day - its backers include the United Nations. The series will be based in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire and the story will progresses using on-line conversations between the characters. All of the filming will be done by the actors who include Lerato Walaza, Sthandiwe Kgoroge, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Mamarumo Marokane and Jemima Osunde.
