While taking a year off his schooling in 2009, Maponyane started attending modelling and acting auditions, where he attained his first modelling campaign, while working as an assistant to
Lucilla Booyzen, Founder of SA Fashion Week. Maponye was named GQ's "Best Dressed Man" in 2011 and Cosmopolitan Magazine's "Sexiest South African Man" in 2013. He was a speaker at the ''Tomorrow's Leaders Convention'' in March 2015. In 2015, Maponyane starred in a lead role on South African spoof comedy series
The Real Jozi A-Listers, alongside fellow South African entertainers
Da L.E.S, Trevor Gumbi and his best friend Tol-A$$-Mo. Maponyane is well known for playing a lead role in the South African film
Tell Me Sweet Something, alongside good friend and fellow South African actress
Nomzamo Mbatha. The film was released in South African theaters on September 4, 2015. The film was removed from major South African cinemas about 5 weeks after release by
Ster Kinekor, despite having generated R1 million in the first five days and having done well. == References ==