Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu

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Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu
Born
Umtata, South Africa
Alma mater University of Transkei
Children3
AwardsCrystal Award for Best Talk Show Host, 2004 and 2005
Stars of Mzansi Award for Best TV Presenter 2008
Career
Show3Talk
Station SABC3
Station Radio 702
Website https://www.noeleenmaholwanasangqu.co.za/

Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu is a South African former radio and TV talk show host and philanthropist.

Biography

Maholwana-Sangqu was born in Umtata, South Africa and studied law at the University of Transkei. [1] She married Andile Sangqu and they have three children. [2]

Maholwana-Sangqu started her presenting career on Radio Transkei in 1986, [3] broadcasting in both English and isiXhosa, [1] then at Radio 702 from 1994, [3] where she was the second black woman on air at the station. [1] She later served as a member of the Primedia Broadcasting Board.

She began her television career in 2003 on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)'s daily show 3Talk. [4] The show explored topics including contemporary racism in South Africa [5] and Maholwana-Sangqu interviewed celebrity guests. In 2004, Maholwana-Sangqu also hosted Great South Africans with Denis Beckett. [6]

In 2004 and 2005 Maholwana-Sangqu won the Crystal Award for Best Talk Show Host for 3Talk [7] and in 2008, she was awarded the inaugural Stars of Mzansi Award for Best TV Presenter. [8] She became known as the "Queen of Talk" [1] and quit 3Talk with Noleen in 2015, after hosting the show for 12 years. [9] [10] Her last show aired on 20 April 2015. [11]

Maholwana-Sangqu is also a philanthropist, a director of the HIRS Women’s Development Consultancy [8] and runs a soup kitchen for women in need. [4]

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