‘Idols’ winner Yanga Sobetwa is not just one of the gang

Seeing us, SA Idols season 14 champion Yanga Sobetwa ditches her pizza, offers us drinks and swaps her diamante sandals for white sneakers, tucking her laces in with acrylic nails manicured in alternating pink and black.

Her spirituality is at the centre of everything she does, she tells us, ascribing her love for singing, her zeal, her success and her being “stable-minded and levelheaded” to the vision she has been given “to draw teenagers closer to God through music”.

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