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Vuyelwa Booi
- TV Celebrity - Johannesburg
Vuyelwa Booi is a South African actress, singer and
television presenter best known for her role as
Alyce Morapedi on the SABC2 soapie 7de Laan, from
2001-2004 and again from 2006 to the present day.
Along with Duncan Senye, she replaced Dosto Noge as
the host of the SABC2 consumer rights show Speak Out
for its fourth season, in 2010.
Vuyelwa was born in Soweto. It is also where she
lived for the first 20 years of her life.
She attended primary school at the Dominican Convent
in Belgravia Johannesburg and for high school moved
on to Potchefstroom High School for Girls.
Vuyelwa got involved in the arts at a very young age
- she started singing in the choir at school and
doing school plays in her primary school years and
continued with that into high school, which is where
her singing career also started to grow.
In 1997 Vuyelwa was among a group of young singers
chosen to be part of the North West Youth Choir that
was to tour Europe in July of 1997. They performed
in five countries, participating in competitions and
choir festivals.
After she matriculated in 1998, Vuyelwa went on to
study for an associate degree in Theatre Arts at
what was then called Midrand University, now Midrand
Graduate Institute. In 2000 she got a lead role in
an Industrial play that was performed at the Market
Theatre and around Johannesburg. |
