You ready for RiRi?

Her tweet about leaving Auckland yesterday set South African fans into a delirium but pop superstar Rihanna's management is keeping her arrival details top secret.

The latest speculation is that the Diamonds singer will arrive tomorrow.

The Times looks at everything about pop's "It" girl ahead of her Sunday show at Joburg's FNB Stadium and her Wednesday night performance at Cape Town Stadium.

REVIEWS:

• The New Zealand Herald (Auckland): "Thankfully, the Barbados-bred pop princess proved worth the wait.

"Yes, Rihanna was late.

"Rihanna has a little bit of the 'whatevs' about her these days - perhaps reflecting her status as a genuine pop superstar at the ripe old age of 25."

• The Sydney Morning Herald: "One word: flawless. Despite all the horror stories dogging the 25-year-old Barbadian pop princess's Australian shows over the past two weeks - 'Was she intoxicated?' 'Did she lip-synch?' 'Was she disrespectful to fans in pitching up late?' - there was nothing to fault Rihanna's spectacular effort.

"Yes, there was a bit of bad language and crotch-grabbing at the start but overall she was a reminder of how women can be confidently in charge of their own sexuality, without resorting to the moronic posturing favoured by Miley Cyrus in recent times."

• GMA News (Manila, Philippines): "The stage was for the most part, bare.

"No overwhelming props onstage, no impressive light displays or spectacular pyrotechnics."

"Though her back-up vocals were minimal and she improvised her dance moves during instrumentals, she managed to transform the concert into one giant, pumped-up club - helped along by the lack of audience banter and song and band introductions.

"Never let the lack of spectacle fool you. The finale and the concert itself was Rihanna, raw - and this is what everyone there came for."

SPOTTED AT HER CONCERTS

• Twickenham Stadium, London: Model Cara Delevigne, Aussie singer Kylie Minogue and tennis star Maria Sharapova.
• Staples Centre, Los Angeles: Singer Christina Aguilera and beau Matthew Rutler, reality TV stars Kylie and Kendall Jenner, rappers Tyga and Big Sean, actor Jesse Metcalfe and model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
• Allphones Arena, Sydney: Singer Jason Derulo
• Padang, Singapore: Justin Bieber

RIHANNA'S BIGGEST EVER HITS IN SOUTH AFRICA:

1. Umbrella

2. Diamonds (it stayed at #1 for 16 weeks and a year later is still on the airplay chart at #61)

3. We Found Love

4. Take A Bow

5. Only Girl In The World

6. SOS

7. What's My Name?

8. Stay

9. California King Bed

10. Cheers (Drink To That) - Source: Universal Music South Africa

EVEN HER COSMETICS ARE A THING

RiriHeartsMac launched last Thursday, and a V&A Waterfront salesman said the RiRi Woo and Talk That Talk lipsticks sold out on Friday, while there were a few Nude and Who's That Chick colours left.

All four colours were sold out at The Zone in Rosebank, Johannesburg.

DUMMIES GUIDE TO THE RIHANNA NAVY

• RIhanna Robyn Fenty's global fan base is known as the Rihanna Navy. In her song G4L, she sings: "We're an army, better yet a navy, better yet crazy."
• Rihanna is a Piscean, born February 20 1988 in Barbados. She has two brothers, Rajad and Rorrey, and three half-siblings on her father's side.
• The Diamonds World Tour is in support of her seventh album, Unapologetic, out on November 19. It's also her first US No 1.
• Her best friend is Melissa Forde, and the pair have each other's birth dates tattooed on their shoulders.
• Rihanna has twice collaborated with British fashion line River Island, recently launching her autumn-winter 2013 collection. She launched her fourth fragrance for women, Rogue, two months ago. She is said to be considering a men's fragrance for 2014.
• She has a fashion reality show/competition called Styled to Rock.
• She has 12 Veve-certified - in excess of 100million views - music videos.
• Back in April, Complex magazine named her navy the No 1 most die-hard online fan base in music.
• She has 32million Twitter followers and just under 79million Facebook likes.
• Her biggest album in South Africa is Good Girl Gone Bad, which sold more than 100000 units. The Umbrella and Take A Bow singles are taken from this album. Good Girl Gone Bad album's sales are closely followed by Loud, which is a few thousand from 100000, and her latest, Unapologetic, is already going for double platinum in South Africa.