Yvonne Chaka Chaka - Princess of Africa | Inspiring Women

Celebrating 20 Years! It's A Milestone For You Guys, Congratulations

By Fiona Wakelin

For me to be associated with these phenomenal women is wonderful. I’ve just turned 60. So this whole year we’ve been busy with celebrations called 60/40, which is my 60th birthday combined with my 40th anniversary in the creative industry. I contacted a couple of retail shops because I wanted it to be a celebration with some meaning.

Shoprite came through for me: 60 + 40 = 100, so we delivered 100 food parcels to the community. It was beautiful, you know, because they were also celebrating their 60 sixty minutes.

Obviously going forward I wanted to celebrate the whole year so I asked people not to bring me presents but to bring me school shoes – and I now have about 250 pairs of school shoes in my garage which I’m going to be distributing to needy children in different places. I want to do a campaign of 10 000 shoes. I’ve also got somebody else who is eager to join me to give out some sanitary pads. I want to do the distribution on the outskirts of Polokwane.

If anyone would like to contribute they can email us at Yvonne@princessofafrica.co.za

Latest Accolade

My latest accolade was being named one of the 100 most powerful women in Africa at a ceremony in Nigeria to celebrate “Power of 100 Africa”.

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GBVF continues to be a national tragedy and we need to tackle this scourge head on.

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(WOMan Radio is a digital radio station founded by Yvonne in 2019. The radio station commenced broadcasting in October 2020 – and is a radio station for women, by women, with women).