{"id":13125,"date":"2024-10-24T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news.naijatraffic.ng\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2024-10-24T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:25:22","slug":"sonia-mbele-biography-age-family-education-and-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/sonia-mbele-biography-age-family-education-and-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Mbele Biography: Age, Family, Education and Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Mbele, a gifted South African, is famous for her work as an actress, model, television producer, and entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>She made a significant achievement by launching the first Real Housewives series in Africa and currently holds the position of executive producer for Real Housewives of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FACTS ABOUT SONIA MBELE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FULL NAME:<\/strong> Sonia Nomthandazo Mbele<\/li>\n<li><strong>DATE OF BIRTH:<\/strong> December 11, 1976<\/li>\n<li><strong>PLACE OF BIRTH:<\/strong> Natalspruit, South Africa<\/li>\n<li><strong>NATIONALITY:<\/strong> South African<\/li>\n<li><strong>OCCUPATIONS:<\/strong> Actress, Writer, Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>CAREER<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She began her acting career in 1998 with the SABC 2 drama &#8220;Phamokate,&#8221; earning the FNB Vita Award for Most Promising New Actress in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Mbele gained widespread recognition for her role in the hit soap opera &#8220;Generations,&#8221; which she starred in from 2003 to 2011, and won the Golden Horn Award for Best Actress in a TV Soap at the South African Film and Television Awards in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>As a trailblazer, she became the first black celebrity to represent the Dark &amp; Lovely, Lux, and Sun-Silk brands in South Africa, solidifying her position as a trendsetter in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, she made history by launching the African version of The Real Housewives franchise with &#8220;Real Housewives of Johannesburg&#8221; through her production company, Sonia Mbele Films.<\/p>\n<p>Building on her success, she created the reality TV series &#8220;Pastor&#8217;s Wives&#8221; for HONEY TV in 2021, further showcasing her talents as a producer and entrepreneur in the entertainment sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PERSONAL LIFE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sonia Mbele married Leslie Sedibe in 2006 after dating, but their marriage ended in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia, a mother of four, has two children with Leslie Sedibe and two with other fathers.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2023 interview, Sonia Mbele revealed that she was diagnosed with chronic anemia after suffering from weeks of fatigue. She is currently undergoing treatment for her iron deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Mbele, a gifted South African, is famous for her work as an actress, model, television producer, and entrepreneur. She made a significant achievement by launching the first Real Housewives series in Africa and currently holds the position of executive producer for Real Housewives of Johannesburg. FACTS ABOUT SONIA MBELE FULL NAME: Sonia Nomthandazo Mbele [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[520,521],"class_list":{"0":"post-13125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-profiles-biographies","8":"tag-sonia-mbele","9":"tag-sonia-mbele-biography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}