Ziyanda Yako

Business Role Player, Actress

Ziyanda Yako is a Senior Role Player for Performance Role Play Training.  She has over 5 years of Role Playing experience. She has trained as a Business Role Player in South Africa with Performance Role Play Training and has done their course with international Role Play specialist, Collin Hunter. Ziyanda has worked with some of South Africa’s biggest corporate and business entities including, Vodacom, Sun International, Umgeni Water and DukeCE, to name a few.

Born in the culturally rich town of Makanda in the Eastern Cape, here Ziyanda fell in love with the arts and first discovered her talents when, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, invited her onstage at the age of nine at the Grahamstown Arts Festival. She studied Musical Theatre at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and has since performed in numerous theatre shows both locally and internationally. Ziyanda has also appeared in numerous soaps and on film. This mother and wife, is also no stranger to the business world and is a Director and Business Development/Events Manager at Zenande Leadership Consulting.  Ziyanda has a passion for people, life and is big on family values…