Yaya Mavundla Biography & Contact Details

Yaya Mavundla, TRUELOVE Magazine 2022

Multi-Award-Winning Transgender Activist/Media Personality | Reality TV Star | Curator | Board Member | Fashion Muse 

About YAYA

Yaya Mavundla, born and bred in Untunjambili, Kranskop on the 1st of August 1988. Mavundla raised by her grandmother, left home at the age of 16 and moved to Durban for greener pastures. She completed her matric in 2010 at Wiggins Secondary High School and she is a Services SETA graduate under Mentoring & Coaching and Skills Development Facilitator program. 

She is a multi-award-winning Transgender activist/media personality, a recipient of The Feather Awards, named Sowetan's Woman's Club Trendsetter/Influencer of the year in 2021 voted by the public and Fashion Industry Awards South Africa; Fashion Muse of the Year. She is a Reality TV Star on an M-Net original Reality Show Becoming which premiered on 1Magic & Mzansi Magic and currently streaming on Showmax and a brand ambassador for Sorbet Group national & Exuviance South Africa. 

She is a curator, entertainment reporter, a publicist and influencer by profession. As a publicist she has worked with world renowned photographer/visual activist Prof. Sir. Zanele Muholi, award winning designers Quiteria & George, Durban Art Gallery, Art Bank of South Africa, award winning media personality Lerato Kganyago, and many other incredible brands and individuals. 
In 2022 she launched her own fashion line Queer Comfort which will be available in London, Oslo, Rome and Amsterdam and South Africa. 

She is a community advisory board member at Wits RHI Transgender clinic and former board member at Gender DynamiX. Mavundla is the first Transgender Woman in Africa to wear The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress photographed at Constitution Hill and it artworks currently on display at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. 

Mavundla is the brainchild behind Layers of a Black Transgender Woman exhibition, Mzansi Queer Festival and 31 Years of PRIDE Catalogue. In February 2022 she has become the first openly transgender woman to model for TRUELOVE Magazine fashion pages. 

She has graced a number of magazine covers; Tagged, OAK Avenue, EXIT and OUT AFRICA Magazine to name a few, of which OUT AFRICA Magazine named her The Future of Television and New Generation Icon.

Contact YAYA

Email: yayamavundla@gmail.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yayarsa/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/YayaRSA

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Yaya Mavundla 2021, Constitution Hill by Thembela Terra Dick 

Yaya Mavundla 2021, Constitution Hill by Terra Dick

Yaya Mavundla, by On Air Entertainment 

Yaya Mavundla at GQ Man of the Year 2021, photo by Sims Mkhwanazi