Bahumi Madisakwane

Bahumi Mhlongo is an actor, speaker, and social media influencer.

Bahumi’s experience in acting began at a young age. She participated in all aspects of it in school, majoring in Dramatic Arts and Filmmaking as a study field at Pro Arte Alphen Park. She has appeared in children’s shows like Snazzy Stories and television ads for Arrive Alive and Woolworths.

Following High School, she received a scholarship to the New York Film Academy for a Film Production degree but had to decline and instead went into Law. During her B. Com. Law Degree, she entered her first television acting role as a supporting character named Zola in a SABC 2 telenovela called Keeping Score (2017).

In 2019, she starred in the first African biopic by BET Africa called Dream: The Lebo Mathosa Story, where she played the young Lebo Mathosa.

Currently, she is majoring in Film Production and Directing, running the Youth MC’ing Department at Rhema Bible Church, participating in a school outreach program that includes motivating and assisting underprivileged schools, and having a YouTube channel that she’ll use to document aspects of her life, short skits, and short stories in the future.

Bahumi enjoys entertaining people mainly through acting as a medium for doing so. Though she ventures in many different things in and out of the entertainment industry, her primary focus is on positively impacting people’s lives and standing true to her values and character in all she ventures in.