Bongo Mbutuma

Mbutuma was born and raised in Cape Town.^{[citation needed]} In 1999, he graduated from South African College Schools (SACS) High School in Cape Town. Then he attended CityVarsity, completing a course in Film and Television Production in 2001.^[3]

Mbutuma appeared in a commercial for Momentum Life, which became very popular. In the commercial, he played a man who gets a car salesman to test drive a new car for him, while he sits in the back seat reading a newspaper.^[3]

In 2003 he joined the Gregg Watt Interactive Actors Workshop for further studies in cinema. Then in 2004, he received a contract with Arepp: Theatre For Life, where he travelled to schools with educational drama projects. After the contract, he made his first guest role on television, in the sci-fi series Charlie Jade. In 2005, he played several guest appearance in the serials Interrogation Room, Going Up Again and Laugh Out Loud. Then he appeared in the feature film Unrequited Love, which made his cinema debut.^[3]

In 2006, he played a minor role as a hospital gate guard in the international drama series ER. In 2007, he received his first television leading role in the SABC1 drama series Divers Down. In the serial, he played the role as Bafana. In the meantime, he received several television commercials for Joko Tea, Momentum, BP and Nedbank. In 2010, he became the television host for the first season of the e.tv technology magazine show The Tech Report.^[3]

In 2014, he played a supporting role Detective Songezo Sibanda in the eKasi+ and e.tv detective drama series Traffic!.^{[citation needed]}