11-year-old grade 6 student Botlhale Boikanyo became the third winner of
SA's Got Talent on Thursday night (18 October) when she snatched the titled in a blitz of popularity that accompanied her from the start.
The pint-sized poet from Mafikeng proved to be a favourite from her first audition when she enchanted audiences with her sassy performance of praise poetry.
Her biggest competition at the finale were runners-up opera singers The PJ Twins who proved that audiences round the world suddenly enjoy opera when it happens in a reality show.
The support for Susan Boyle,
James Bhemgee, Paul Potts and now the PJ Twins reveals that there's something about opera singers that attracts us to them - but only when they aren't singing in an actual opera. What is it? Is it that there's a fun factor to feeling fancy and posh sometimes? (Without the pressure and boredom of needing to listen to them for hours.)
If so, The PJ Twins weren't quite fancy enough when it came to the crunch between opera and poetry. The impact of poetry won Botlhale the season's R250 000 prize which she'll be using to help finish building her mother's house. She ended the show by saying that she's also going to buy a flashy cellphone and save the rest to start her own business.
A clip of her winning performance: