Lesego Tlhabi, a South African comedian and writer who is 23 years old, is best known for making up the character Coconut Kelz.
She was born in South Africa on December 13, 1988. Tlhabi may be best known for Coconut Kelz, her well-liked alter ego. Still, she is getting a lot of attention on TV as a key member of the hit SABC show “uBettina Wethu.”
She is very active on social media. The Writer has about 56,900 people following her on Instagram. She posts regularly on Twitter as “Coconut Kelz,” where 57.5K people follow her.
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Lesego Tlhabi Parents: Father Brian & Mother Penny Osiris
Her parents, Brian Tlhabi and Penny Osiris, gave birth to Lesego Tlhabi. They were both doctors by trade.
She got along well with both of her parents before they agreed to get a divorce. After their marriage didn’t work out, they both agreed to take a walk on their path.
In 2010, a journalist named Redi Tlhabi married Brian, making the South African writer’s stepmother.
Penny and her daughter Lesego still spend quality time together, and her official Instagram account has a lot of posts about her mother.
No one knows how she and her father are doing now because they are rarely seen together in person or on social media.
Lesego Tlhabi Siblings & Family
Lesego Tlhabi is the oldest of her family’s four children. She does have a younger sister, though. Her name is Ofentse Tlhabi.
On June 28, she turned 30 years old. The sisters are very close, and there are many things we can do together.
Before her father got married to Redi, the writer’s family was made up of just four people.
No more of her connections or posts on social media make it seem like she has another family member.
Lesego Tlhabi Net Worth 2022 & Career
It is thought that Lesego Tlhabi has a net worth of $200,000. Most of her money comes from her work as a writer and comedian.
She also gets some cash from endorsements.
When she started Coconut Kelz’s YouTube channel, she was a TV writer and Dame the DJ. The people who made Kelz say that he is a “caricature of a self-hating black person who delightfully expresses the worries of white people in South Africa after apartheid.”
She says that by putting on an outrageous persona, Tlhabi could “play these racist thoughts back to them in a funny way so they would really listen and not get defensive.”
She looks to Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, Issa Rae, and the puppet Conrad Missing for ideas and references. Some people said that her racial satire was like the movie Ali G by Sacha Baron Cohen.
The South African native also has a channel on YouTube with her name on it.
