Basetsana kumalo biography books
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Bassie: My Journey of Hope
Key themes range from finding success, entrepreneurship, faith, family and mentorship. In regards to entrepreneurship she writes honestly about her business failures such bowing out gracefully from a failed property business and loosing big time on a retail venture. She draws her risk taking streak from her grandfather and parents who had various businesses in Soweto. Basetsana calls herself a serial entrepreneur however beyond her diverse portfolio of businesses in mining, travel, retail and property, media is st
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Basetsana Kumalo
South African TV personality (born 1970)
Basetsana Julia "Bassie" Khumalo (née Makgalemele; born 29 March 1974)[1] is a South African television personality, beauty pageant titleholder, businesswoman, and philanthropist.[2] Her career began in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa at the age of 16. She was crowned Miss South Africa in 1994 and in the same year became the first runner-up in Miss World.
Early life and education
[edit]Kumalo was born in Soweto, South Africa. She and her two sisters and brother spent their early years helping to keep the family afloat, making sandwiches to sell at soccer matches every weekend. She attended Thabisang Primary School in Orlando West. When Soweto was engulfed by student unrest in 1986 she was then sent to Trinity Secondary School where she completed her matric. She was then enrolled for tertiary education at the University of Venda, and majored in an Education
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Queen of Soweto: The story of Basetsana Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele was born in a township called Soweto. She was her parents’ third daughter. They named her Basetsana, which means “girls”. In Tswana culture, calling your daughter that means your next child will be a boy. This actually happened. Her parents’ next child was a boy. Her parents, big sisters and younger brother all called her Bassie for short.
When she was a child, Bassie was very shy. She liked to sing and dance in her room on her own.
One day at school netball practice, the coach told two girls to pick teams. Bassie stood on the edge of the field hoping someone would say, “Come play with us!” But nobody wanted her on their team.
Little did they know, Bassie would become one of the most popular girls in the country.
On weekends, she and her brother and sisters helped their teacher mom and bus driver dad to pay the bills. They made sandwiches to sell at local soccer matches. They tried to sell everything as