Top 7 Showstopper: Yanga - ‘Not Yet Uhuru’ - Idols SA | Mzansi Magic

Yanga lifted everyone’s spirits and brought the entire State Theatre to its feet with a powerful performance of Letta Mbulu’s legendary hit.
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[@Tsonganese]

Who’s here in 2024?♥️

[@angieferreira6359]

Here!

[@naledinokuthaba]

❤

[@felicia.cebsile.mngometulu4960]

❤

[@grace.4481]

❤❤❤

[@larissalaureneovaghatomo9238]

Me

[@Emarehi_Oherein]

Can we acknowledge that this has been and still is the best IdolsSa performance !!!!

[@M-T1]

💯 Facts

[@sisandantini4441]

Totally agree with you

[@MrNnete]

Preach

[@kabelontshabeleng5705]

💯

[@victoriamumba2219]

Yes it has 💃🏻💃🏻

[@victoriashongo]

here in 2024 and this performance will forever be legendary✊

[@kholofelongoepe332]

It's 2023 and this is still one of the best performances 🔥🔥🔥

[@lisakhanyadumezweni4901]

Remains the best showstopper in the history of idols SA

[@carolinedofo8615]

True

[@adorablexabisotshabalala8132]

Most definitely

[@dockhunwane4765]

Who's here 2020? Sending love, well wishes and prayer to all the families affected by Covid-19 😭♥️

[@nonoz]

Girl I have no reason not to be here

[@mimmyseroka3577]

I am here, in this lockdown , we find ourselves here:):)

[@dockhunwane4765]

Be strong guys, it's just a few days before the storm is finally over 😭🙏

[@sanelemazibuko7967]

Sending love and light right back at you ❤️

[@makomborerodzivakwi9177]

Me

[@peoboikanyo6055]

The best showstopper performance in the history of Idols SA.

[@Lolz3011]

Periodt

[@nonoz]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@annahshambare7585]

Yes yes

[@madumedodo]

Somizi says Zama is the best. Ai man. I beg to differ. If they cnt find something unique to say ba didimale. Yanga's season was the best.

[@taiyanglobal7273]

True that!I love the ending in particular! Amandla!!

[@rethabilemalefane4952]

who else is still here, may 2019. i cant stop watching this performance

[@ntandomtwa2220]

I am here

[@hazelncube2524]

Super perfomance

[@asandamgwelana2578]

Here🤣🤣🤣

[@tsholok4069]

June 2019😩😩

[@khomazi]

mom

[@athenkosinkuzo7138]

I am watching this showstopper in 2022 yet it still gives me goosebumps, best performance ever!!!

[@elainemhaule5525]

No one can replace this one‼️‼️❣🔥

[@kellyphadi996]

Am also here and still enjoying it....wooow..!!

[@nontobekongema2368]

Yanga was amaizing❤❤🔥

[@AmandaMonda]

This will FOREVER be THE BEST showstopper performance in the history of IDOLS!!!!

[@cwengaxakayi]

Her and Sneziey's Proud Mary❤️🔥😭

[@setsomotsoai6336]

She took the assignment and knocked it out the stadium 👌

[@mamelloditsoane9196]

January 2023… I am still here. Still can’t get enough of this performance and remains the best showstopper performance for me

[@likhona2719]

November 2023 and I still share the same sentiments.

[@ntwenhle.maz1]

October 2019 I'm still here 😅 there's just something about this perfomance that always brings me back here

[@peequckie6998]

You can say that again

[@ttb269]

I am here to stay

[@mahlako9741]

I feel you

[@juliahmafoea2516]

Same here

[@abii_l]

Same

[@boitumelosidyiyo3527]

Even the ancestors don't believe this child's strength and abilities, when God blessed her, he was showing off. Yanga is the best idol ever! Hands down!!! She literally shocked the entire country, not even looting shocked us like this! She's truly king 👑👑👑👑

[@agnesmagwaza5011]

The best comment ever. You should write books. I love your expression. Its all true.

[@princy_mb]

@@agnesmagwaza5011 0

[@sduzondi3480]

Such a powerhouse this child

[@asandamgwelana2578]

Our Yanga Sobetwa I miss her so much murrr 😭😭😭😭

[@Yoyisa-love]

Yanga killed this song, no one must ever try to perform it..... It's a very old song but the way she performed it wooow and big up to the choreographer ❤❤. Best performance ever.... Well done GAL, you are a great performer....

[@MissM871]

Came back to this after the weak show stopper performances of season 16.

[@lisaleerenea3597]

Same here

[@sipokuhlekuhle8987]

Season 16👎👎👎👎

[@mpathogcumisa]

😂😂

[@grace.4481]

@@sipokuhlekuhle8987 true

[@flamingopink5003]

Showstopper S16 were not showstoppers They werent even shows..i was dissapointed 😐

[@SikiDlanga]

Yanga is a winner. She is a star. This is phenomenal! WOW! I'm speechless! This is not just a singer. She has a great calling!

[@mantimetshabalala4172]

U ve done it girl

[@sphesihlezulu702]

How can a 16 year old evoke so much emotion😭😭It's like she was alive during apartheid times😭😭She's unmatched shem. Yanga needs to maintain this consistency and take the crown because wooow👏👏😭

[@pinkymthambeka6083]

nana I've got no words

[@ndibulelesotondoshe7458]

And guess what? She's maintained the consistency and has taken the crown!!

[@mavismangedlana6457]

She indeed maintained

[@littlemixvideos9837]

she's 16???

[@obakengmichaelmagae8767]

@@littlemixvideos9837 17 this year

[@uniquenewlook1022]

Who is here in 2019 I can't listen to Yanga and mot cry😢you are my best May the good Lord bless you You bless my soul👏👏👌

[@phindilemsomi3658]

when am stressed i watch all her videos 😭😭😭

[@buyisiwemncwabe3812]

Me 😍😍😍

[@kotamolaba4052]

Oooooshem girl😍😘😘😚😚☺🙂☺🙂☺

[@preciousakasha]

I'm Nigerian but this performance gives me goosebumps, I can't count how many times I've watched it...it has made me love South African songs more 🥺.

[@nazikay1340]

I miss watching you Yanga❤

[@angelinamukuve2854]

Agreed ❤

[@prettymavundla1345]

🎉❤

[@gaonegarogwe6383]

Showstopper was never the same After Yanga hit that stage...its been years now and I've never seen anyone do better than her❤❤❤

[@rutendomelo8307]

September 2024...anyone present

[@MananaMoeng27]

She made the things that makes the performance to can happen 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

[@talandandesi1709]

Manana Moeng lol 😂

[@monikasilas4340]

who else is still obsessed with the faces Yanga does when performing. They still give me chills

[@bnschmdt]

Her sincerity is a testament to her conviction

[@everything_about_Zia]

Am still watching her faces in 2023

[@singitabaloyi1668]

I’m here to clear my mind after watching season 16 showstopper performance, it was a mess.

[@tavongagoto]

Exactly

[@nthabisengmatibabokwe4891]

It was disappointing shame

[@grace.4481]

@@nthabisengmatibabokwe4891 agreed

[@wanjauzvids]

One of those once in a lifetime magical performances where everything falls into place. From the instruments, to the lighting to the audience to the choreography! Such magic can never be replicated. I wish the clip had gone ahead to show the judges reactions . I hope they were on their feet clapping. This was an A+ performance

[@innocentialetshela8661]

Demmet!!!! This girl is life y'all.... Hands down she has got it FAM... Can we do the right thing and vote?? This girl attended nyi'sment university..

[@Tshepang.Nathan]

INNOCENTIA LETSHELA lol hahahahhaha

[@katzzzzngom]

Sounds like Somizi 😂😂😂

[@sanelisiwemazibuko5926]

😂😂😂 struu

[@wandileqwabe3046]

we feel you.

[@kiarahatches9824]

She can dance

[@alcoholicsanonymous9060]

This will be the most viewed video of the WHOLE SEASON. Goosebumps 😩😭

[@gracedanford4083]

She nailed it shame

[@sindie-londiemamoe559]

I hv watched this for the millionth time tdy♥️😍😍😍😍

[@phililekhumalo977]

Lol been here 4ever man 😂 I really cannot get enough of this..

[@marimemm1218]

Even the haters are here watching 😁

[@asandamgwelana2578]

True Million views imagine this Child

[@zithomajozi7357]

Who else is inspired by this young girl's commitment to entertain us and her workmanship

[@masadichris3705]

I saw her first day I told my younger sister dat yanga is a star Yooo ur on fire gul

[@nosiphonothilemdunge4653]

Couldn't have said it better myself...THIS GIRL IS MAGIC!!!!

[@mofokengjoyce6034]

She's the best

[@penuelmanqele3091]

I love her performance I have been watching over n over ,u rock girl well done you took us back to 90s

[@mihlalizokufa9043]

My winner 2018

[@lilithak2228]

September 2019... And this still gives me so much goosebumps 🔥💕

[@hottydamases7791]

Lilitha K me too.,great performance indeed👌

[@palesaplsweetkhala2799]

Today showstopper is so boring made me go back to this performance

[@lisaleerenea3597]

Yup

[@lisaleerenea3597]

And Thando

[@mphomasoeu]

lol who else has been here more than 10times because of Yanga's Performance

[@bontlemmutle]

I thot i am the onli 1..i am so obsessed with her thou 😍😍😍

[@mphomasoeu]

lol clearly you not

[@nomfundojajula2643]

Tjooooona, I can't get enough of Yanga. 🎹🎶🎤

[@nosipholanga9066]

maybe 20 times now iam obsessed

[@denroleonard5345]

Violet Masoeu Me

[@lmao7744]

I've already watched this more than three times and every time I see this, Yanga keeps blowing me away. More of this please! It was the performance of the night!

[@sivendamane3975]

Can't remember how many times I've watched this

[@tafadzwarusere1635]

Me too😭

[@forevertheaii]

Ke a mo rata.

[@lmao7744]

@@forevertheaii Too much

[@nhlahlabeexinwisa7991]

as for me i downloaded this video so that i can watch it over and over again.

[@noccym5109]

It's supposed to be a show but I think she just started a revolution. Yessss!!!

[@fikilekhumalo3329]

I can't stop listening to this

[@noccym5109]

@@fikilekhumalo3329 She makes me feel like am hearing the lyrics for the first time. I love it.

[@selmauyumba7598]

Idols is done but Im still at this video amazed at this girl

[@sithabasayi]

This performance will always be iconic!!

[@sinalopako5032]

I’m here after the 2020 show stopper. 💔To simply get the definition of a showstopper.

[@gamuehmadamombe7147]

Who is here to appreciate Yanga's showstopper❤❤

[@rhodlychireza4926]

Am I the only one watching this over and over again???this is one of the best ever sa idols performance

[@rethabiletshosane8205]

Rhodly chireza Lol even now m watching it🙈🙈

[@ethelbonyongo8364]

Also me!!!!!

[@leakymwema3267]

Am watching aswel so u are not alone

[@lindiletungu1832]

Rhodly chireza no

[@rabiaalasad8373]

This performance put me to tears wooow😭😭👏

[@mduduzizano5713]

Me too

[@cachendra2839]

Me too!

[@finemuleya7016]

Me too

[@asiphemtatshi7844]

I cried too 😭😭

[@sphesihlezulu702]

Same😭😭😭

[@amandakonkota]

who else still comes back to this video

[@AnneliKamfer]

It gets me everytime

[@asandamgwelana2578]

Me❤️❤️

[@matshidisofelicitah3146]

Amanda Zipho Konkota me

[@mashudunemutudi6124]

M still goner b der

[@khomazi]

wow

[@Yanga_Mpetsheni]

Who else is here September 2019. I just cant stop watching this performance 👌👏🙌🙌

[@busisiwemaphanga7166]

When a cover has more views than the original song! Sinyise Mo'ghel!! #8 ON TRENDING!

[@khomazi]

zakho who is the form of themonth saints 😂😂😂

[@mashudualice3789]

Last time I commented no one liked 😰😨

[@wilheminavinger3244]

I so love her.... There's something special about her😘

[@ofentsekelebogile741]

Wilhemina Vinger they is something about her eyes that makes u wanna look deep into it

[@nakuumbapaulina2950]

😊

[@amatholeamahlephakemesitho683]

She is talented

[@vuyisilemnguni3698]

I dont even watch Idols but Yanga should win... her spirit is just what an Idol needs. She has it all😍😍😍

[@kelebogilekambinda204]

I agree with you from today onwards

[@karabokhoza1079]

How I so wish the 2020 showstopper was more like this 😭 Yanga really killed, nailed and murdered it 💯😍😍🔥❤️💛

[@bwalyamukuka9441]

The best performance. She should be a coach for this year contestants

[@jarredscobie]

She's one of the contestants that don't need alot of probs on stage to deliver a showstopper performance😻 Just her voice a few backup dancers and she's on😊 loved her performance by the way🤘

[@ZamaSandla]

I don't know how many times I've watched this performance and each and every time I get goosebumps. The artistry in this young woman is something to be admired. I'm a FAN! I can't wait to hear whatever she decides to put out for her music!

[@memorydhliwayo1856]

Me too ey

[@vusumuzidube4418]

l wonder hw Letta Mbulu felt . extremely wow

[@qinisomsweli3014]

I'm watching this for like, the 100th time if not more, ayyy marn Yanga did justice! I was just listening to the original track and I have to say, Leta Mbulu must surely be proud where ever she is !!!

[@sibusisomsweli9972]

She did

[@aphindangxawu8592]

2022 and this is what we call a SHOWSTOPPER 👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@carolinekekana8767]

Every week she leaves a mark

[@salalupasha5501]

True

[@adelaidetsamuriwo6853]

Okay,you got to give credit where it’s due,,,Yanga DID THE THINGS🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥,,Girl is gifted !!!Voting for her💯

[@baconboy1269]

The original song was released in 1993 by Mama Letta Mbulu, its been 25 years and we not yet even close to uhuru. Thank you, Yanga.

[@kamvanondula3856]

Still here June 2019........😭😭😭😭This child is something else

[@lesegokekana08]

Who's here 2019?😍🔥🔥🔥.

[@itumelengcosmic8484]

Sisonke

[@mashudualice3789]

Together

[@miletsibanda2651]

Lesego Kekana fgffhfdgfddzff cgxggfgdgffh

[@slicktie-dye4762]

Who ever disliked this vedio is a WITCH😒... Yanga baby thanks for touching some of our lives😍😍😍 what a powerful young soul we surrender.

[@mavismangedlana6457]

Best performance in the Idols History

[@mashadimotshwaedi7665]

I agree

[@obasisimeon7490]

Can't get enough of this performance 💕💕💕🥺🥺🥺

[@promisengxabane]

Whenever I watch this performance I cry because she takes me back from where we are coming from as a nation. Yanga can perform, she's a natural. Mom Letta must be smiling at her.

[@mutintanamoya3098]

What does the song mean.

[@bnschmdt]

@@mutintanamoya3098not yet to freedom

[@tinashelindi8156]

2022 this perfomance still gives me the chillz. Still the best showstopper perfomance of all time

[@pablo.m2314]

Normally my favourite is Xae but after this week and last week's performance. You really had me inspired. You're going far and we can't deny

[@beatricemanoah3312]

My favorite all along was King B. But Yanga just could win this. The drive, the energy, the moves, the strong command in her voice. Her voice demands that you listen. I love her. To think shes only 16.. Dynamite sure comes in small packages

[@fikilekhumalo3329]

Yah me my favorite used to be xae

[@mapasekalemaoana10]

Ayiii suka.... this show is over, give this kid what belongs to her. Woow Yanga - i"m blown!!!

[@majolanaobes3144]

how can i vote for yanga plz

[@Kimsegel]

Her voice is♨️♨️❤️❤️👏🏾

[@sphepheloportiamanyatsi2118]

jawdey kim nje

[@anothandomantashe2463]

She has an African voice , uyayiva nje ideep it makes the pots to be done inaleyanto leyaaaaaa

[@nomancube4788]

This is what a showstopper is . Idols 2019 contestants did not give me enough.

[@galaletsangsanyane7506]

Came to remind myself what showstopper is, since we don't have it in 2019

[@galaletsangmabule3002]

Weird... we have the same name👑

[@slindilemaseko2130]

Hey cc m sure 2019 was better yoh muhlolo wa 2020! 🤣🤣🙈🙈

[@fsindane02]

2018 Show stopper💥💥💥💓💓💓 she was on fire.Lets vote for her SA, keep her on the competition.She has it all👐👐👐

[@lindaakum1208]

I love her with all my soul

[@tshidimanasoe9545]

Yanga must be the next idol SA

[@nomfundongxongo395]

She have an amazing voice..i love her...and this perfomance is LIT💓

[@noziphondlovu4744]

I love u my daughter yu so damn good

[@chwayitabushula7301]

Absolutely the best performance ever, I still come back to watch it there was definitely no losing after this ❤❤

[@understand8370]

Team Yanga and Thato show some love,let's vote vote vote this young lady is our idol.

[@vediek1276]

YES! TEAM YANGA AND THATO

[@breathtakingly_african]

I always search for this vedio....My best ever Yanga performance!❤

[@tshiamomnisi6374]

I'm so proud to be South African. We're just a vibe yazini! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️❤️❤️

[@mathabobaatjies9764]

I’ve always know that yanga was a star ...since her auditions but today she has shown me that she’s the whole Milky Way and beyond

[@viv.k4134]

I'm shooketh...how I love the African culture...I'm not from SA ..I'm Kenyan but can still relate😍

[@relebogilemosete4088]

Viva Yanga

[@helenaamukongo30]

I get goosebumps whenever I watch this performance 😭❤️🇳🇦

[@AzolaPohlwana-gf1jp]

The best performance to ever come out of idols 🎉🎉

[@bobraclaudiamaja1580]

2023 I’m still here and I still get goosebumps watching this performance ❤

[@nombulelondlovu825]

After today's Idolsaa Showstopper performances I came back to this video to remind myself what a Showstopper is. An unmatched performance! Yanga should come back to idols to teach contestants about the Showstopper theme!

[@sericaranchod8716]

For Randall to stand!!!!

[@kagisomocumi7776]

Rare thing.

[@kagisomocumi7776]

As I watch again.

[@DiinaNamutenyaShikesho1]

True. She is really a show stopper...

[@mezameza7178]

I've been looking for that part but dololo

[@kagisomocumi7776]

Lol...eish...Manzi sorry. She received standing ovation from all three judges but pity that part is not shown here.

[@AmilaTyodi]

2024 and we are still here🥹🥹

[@juniormanyokole42]

2023 ,and this is still the best performance in the history of Idols

[@londiwentombela8099]

"YANGA WAMI" that's what I used to call her whenever she performed, I would be on my feet clapping and dancing with her...."SHE'S GONNA WIN THIS SEASON " that's what I said after this performance which gave me goosebumps ♥️♥️.....she had that SARAFINA SPIRIT.....August 2020 I am still watching,who is with me?

[@witnessngobeni2395]

Can they give her Zahara's song already.....i love you yanga😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@Ratie_Zoe]

This song is so relevant to what is going on currently inRSA... this girl is smart, talented, anointed, and a brilliant performer! She brings in so much passion and emotion to all her performances 😍😢 I have my winner ✊🏽 Amandla

[@nkosinoxolo3259]

I dnt care what y'all are saying but this is Yanga's song, she owns it 😑💃💃💃💃💃❤💯🤗

[@tlhologelomakotanyane427]

2021 we are still here, best performance ever

[@nolubabalomcengwa6935]

The way this young lady commands the stage is impeccable. Her understanding of lyrics and the way she interprets it in song is phenomenal! What an old soul she is. Wow, Yanga!

[@blesseddlas5752]

Yes indeed my sister 😫🎀

[@ronewaroxy5633]

Yanga doing the most😍😍😍😍young n talented soul😗😗

[@siinopakade9995]

I can't get enough of this performance. 😭😭Mayiing is doing the most 😍 I don't regret voting for her

[@marjorysalasini1626]

7months later still getting goosebumps when I watch this 😢♥️♥️ pure talent!! God bless her soul

[@qengemandilakhe9851]

Same😭😭😭

[@andilechauke3317]

This is what we call a showstopper not what the 2019 contestants delivered

[@thembelihlenkosi2500]

2020 is the worst hhayi. It gets worst by season

[@mwizanzila2482]

2020 is even worse

[@nokwandankosi6138]

Wait till you c 2020😂😂

[@SboMazibuko]

Whose here 29 May 2024 ❤

[@rileylehlogonolobopape7330]

It’s not yet uhuru

[@Nothing_S7]

Am here 3 June 2024

[@londiwentanzi5495]

03 August 2024

[@docmediaMlambo]

dintshang...

[@oceaneyes24]

Hai, this is Beyonce quality, she can dance and sing at the same time without her voice being affected!! You are amazing hunnay 😍😍😍

[@mixohlungwani3793]

This is a show stopper, not what we saw this year

[@MuziSambo]

The kid is only 16 years old🥰🥰🥰

[@world9806]

Muzi Sambo [EMJAY SA] what 😱😱😱

[@forevertheaii]

16??😱

[@londiwekeketsomhlongo2240]

@Songezo Khunyalele unfortunately she won't

[@nyashagwaze1454]

Hope she wins shz so passionate in her performances

[@leratolamula4637]

We know

[@zinhlesithabilebhengu6191]

I'm still here enjoying Yanga's performance I love her I can't help it

[@MrKelo1]

2022 and this is still the best showstopper performance!

[@themedguytM]

Yanga means business!!!!! She is in it to win 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@taiyanglobal7273]

Got goosebumps! Sterling performance inspite of the message. To think almost 30 years later "Silale Emkukwini?" Letta Mbuli said it Miriam Make a said it Bob Marley said it Peter Tosh said it Jimmy Cliff cried about it. So when will we be free? I cry for the children of Africa 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@malebomiyambu9627]

shes gonna win

[@nelsongeieb581]

Vote

[@mohudi6914]

She must win

[@mildredlweendo1470]

She should

[@thabisilemasimula9390]

She'll only win if we vote. I have voted. Have we?

[@lelonombulelo2737]

DEFENETLY

[@sungukhosa]

I'll never get over this

[@trendingworld7541]

first time saw to this video back in 2018 it gave me goosebumps...it still pulls the heart strings even now