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10 Lesser-Known South African Celebrity Twitter Handles To Follow

10 Lesser-Known South African Celebrity Twitter Handles To Follow

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South Africans love to tweet, including — or especially — the celebrities. Some of these celebrity South African Twitter handles are more famous than others, but half the fun is discovering new artists and actors to fan crush on. Here we focus on 10 lesser-known South African celebrity Twitter handles to follow.

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1. Sean Pages

The musician and producer just released the video for his new album, with Teepee, on Youtube and tweeted about it here :

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2. Nonhle Thema

The actress and new face of Madison Shoes is quite popular on the social network with more than 200,000 followers and frequent updates like this:

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3. Bonang Matheba

The multi-talented artist sings, acts, models and designs. She has more than 600,000 followers on her verified Twitter account. She sends out posts like this:

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4. Loyiso Bala

The Joburg musician has a new album out, so he’s been tweeting quite frequently of late. Here’s a recent post:

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5. Phelo Bala

A singer, songwriter and aspiring actor, Phelo Bala of the Bala Brothers singing sensation has some 15,000 followers. He says he’s a prolific tweeter on his profile, but he didn’t send out a tweet in nearly a month. This was one of his last communications:

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6. Theo Kgosinkwe

One half of the Afropop group, Mafikizolo, Theo Kgosinkwe recently posed with Pharell, an experience he tweeted here:

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7. Anele Mdoda

She’s got lovers and haters, but the radio DJ who is best known for her on-air partnership with Grant Nash counts Martha Stewart among her 246,000 followers. Her tweets are all over the board:

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8. Chopha Achaze

She’s sent out some 20,000 tweets to her 98,000 followers under the handle @thandiswamazwai, which is also the identity she uses while singing (what she’s famous for) since joining the social network in May 2010. Here’s a recent tweet:

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9. DJ Fresh

One of South Africa’s top DJs, he is followed by nearly 600,000 people and sends out multiple tweets per day. He enjoys responding to others’ tweets, like this one:

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10. Arthur Mafokate

I love this artist, not only because he is one of South Africa’s pioneering kwaito musicians, but also for the Twitter motto he uses (pictured above). His tweets cover everything from promoting his music to this: