She went to the Akademie vir Dramakuns for a long time before her break came.
Brought up in the Alexandra township outside Johannesburg, Chichi was found when makers of The Wedding Show were soliciting customers in the Rosebank shopping center in Joburg.
Chichi supposedly overwhelmed the makers in her meeting about her optimal wedding and they offered her the exhibiting work.
She went ahead to assume minor parts in soapies Backstage and Generations, and additionally the SABC1 dramatization Tshisa.
In 2007 she cleared out South Africa and went to New York where she learned at a performing expressions school. She came back to South Africa five years after the fact.
