Singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka holds the distinction of being the first black child to perform on national television. The programme was called Sugar Shack with Bernard Joffa as its producer. Yvonne sang Brook Benton’s True Confessions.
Born Yvonne Ntombizodwa Machaka, the youngest of three girls on 18 March 1965 in Dobsonville, Soweto to Sophie Machaka and Habakkuk ‘Rex’ Machaka.