Tumi Makgabo

Last updated

Tumi Makgabo (born c. 1974/75) is a South African television presenter. From 2000 to 2005 she was a current affairs presenter at Cable News Network (CNN) [1] International and anchor of its Inside Africa programme interviewing among others Thabo Mbeki, George W. Bush, Shimon Peres and Oprah Winfrey. She was based at the headquarters in Atlanta. Before that, she had worked for SABC.

Contents

After CNN she returned to her home country to help prepare for the upcoming soccer world cup. From 2006 to 2008, she was head of communications and international relations at the 2010 LOC ( Local Organising Committee) but abruptly quit on February 8 without giving reasons.

Career

Tumi Makgabo has been a broadcaster for more than a decade[ when? ] both in South Africa and as anchor and co-producer of 'Inside Africa' at the global news network CNN International's headquarters in Atlanta, US. In 2006, she established her production company, 'Tumi & Co.', which produced ‘Talk with Tumi Makgabo’ for M-Net and continues to produce long-form and documentary content for broadcast and in-house use. Her company also runs media skills development programmes for corporates as well as individuals.

Until early 2008, Makgabo was the International Affairs and Communications Manager and spokesperson for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa and in the same year she was selected to join the World Economic Forum's Forum of Young Global Leaders.

Makgabo has also served as a speaker and commentator on broadcasting and media in Africa for global organisations including the United Nations Development Fund, the European Commission, The World Economic Forum, Kofi Annan's Association for a Green Revolution in Africa and the IUCN.

Makgabo holds several board positions including South African Tourism, Sun International and is a newly appointed member of the Global Agenda Council on the Gender Gap. In recognition of her work in broadcasting, Makgabo is a recipient of an Eagle Award, a Rapport City Press Prestige Award, a DuPont Award as well as the African People's Intercontinental Broadcaster of the Year Award amongst others.

Makgabo is one of the directors at Foschini Group (TFG)

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CNN International</span> International news television channel

Cable News Network International or CNN International is an international television channel and website owned by CNN Worldwide. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and international news bureaus. Unlike its sister channel, CNN, a North American-only subscription service, CNN International is carried on a variety of TV platforms across the world, and broadcast from studios inside and outside the US, in Atlanta, New York City, London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi. In some countries, it is available as a free-to-air network. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC News, CBC News, France 24, CNA, DW, CGTN, RT, WION, ANC Global, NHK World, Rai Italia, Arirang TV or Al Jazeera English.

Daljit Dhaliwal is a British newsreader and television presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Cole (broadcaster)</span> British broadcast journalist

Stephen Joseph Samuel Cole is a British journalist, producer, news anchor and television presenter. He was the creative force behind BBC Click and its first host from 2000-2006. Cole was also part of the original launch lineup for Sky News in 1989, the revamped CNN International in 1995 and the launch of Al Jazeera English in 2006, as well as anchoring for BBC World News from 1996-2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Femi Oke</span> British television presenter and journalist

Femi Oke is a British television presenter and journalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hala Gorani</span> American journalist

Hala Basha-Gorani is an American journalist, working as a correspondent for NBC News. Previously she was an anchor and correspondent for CNN International, based in London. She is also a war correspondent. She previously anchored CNN's Hala Gorani Tonight weeknights at 8 p.m. CET. Gorani co-hosted Your World Today with Jim Clancy until February 2009 and then International Desk until April 2014 from CNN's Atlanta headquarters.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Monita Rajpal</span> Canadian journalist

Monita Rajpal is a Canadian journalist. She is a former news presenter for Citytv and CNN International.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anjali Rao</span> Global television news anchor and broadcast journalist

Anjali Rao is an Australian-Indian global television news anchor and broadcast journalist. She starred on season 5 of The Real Housewives of Melbourne.

Fionnuala Sweeney is an Irish anchorwoman and reporter. Based at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta and at CNN London, Fionnuala was also the solo host of the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 from Millstreet, County Cork.

Ralitsa B. Vassileva is a Bulgarian journalist. Currently she is lecturer at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Previously she was an anchorwoman on CNN television news from 1992 to 2014 and news director at Bulgarian International Television, BIT between 2015 and 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Veronica Pedrosa</span>

Veronica Pedrosa is a Filipino independent broadcast journalist, news presenter and moderator, based in London.

Maryam Nemazee is an Iranian British broadcast journalist, currently working with Al Jazeera English. She was born in London to Iranian parents.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isha Sesay</span> Journalist and TV presenter

Isha Isatu Sesay is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN International. Originally based at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. and now based in Los Angeles, California, where she hosted the news programs CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles. In addition, she was the presenter of the 360 Bulletin on Anderson Cooper 360°. In 2012, Sesay also joined HLN as a co-anchor for Evening Express. She left CNN in 2018 to support a girl's education project called W.E. Can Lead for African girls, write a book and follow various other personal projects.

Your World Today is a former daily international news-magazine television series that airs on CNN International, a sister cable-news channel to CNN. The show serves as a morning breakfast show for viewers in the Asia-Pacific region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pedro Pinto (journalist)</span> Portuguese-American journalist and communications director

Pedro Mendonça Pinto is a Portuguese-American journalist and communications professional. Currently he is the founder and CEO of a sports communications agency called Empower Sports*. Previously, he worked as managing director of communications at UEFA in Switzerland. Pinto was also a sports anchor for CNN International in Atlanta and London, covering the world’s highest profile events, including 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Champions League finals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Abdo</span> British sports broadcaster (born 1981)

Kate Abdo is an English sports broadcaster who currently hosts UEFA Champions League coverage for CBS Sports. Throughout her career she has worked internationally in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany and the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rima Maktabi</span> Lebanese TV presenter and journalist

Rima Maktabi is a Lebanese TV presenter and award-winning journalist who returned to al-Arabiya after hosting CNN's monthly program Inside the Middle East for two years and previously working at the Arab satellite channel since 2005. She was among several female Arab journalists who first became known through her reporting during the 2006 Lebanon War and who had successful careers afterward, including Maktabi and her former colleague at al-Arabiya Najwa Qassem.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lerato Mbele</span> South African broadcast journalist

Lerato Mbele is a South African journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC. Mbele currently presents Talking Business Africa for the network. She previously presented the Africa Business Report and Newsday.

Kate Riley is a British-American international sports television presenter and journalist currently working for CNN International.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robyn Curnow</span> South African journalist and news anchor

Robyn Curnow is a South African journalist and news anchor. She previously anchored CNN Newsroom at 6 pm and 7 am on Friday. During the coronavirus pandemic, she also anchored the program at 2 am. The program was a fast-moving news show that showcased CNN’s global reach by going live to CNN's reporters around the world, tracking the day-by-day developments and global news for CNN's international viewers.

Andrea Sanke is an American television journalist. She currently works as a senior presenter for TRT World in Istanbul.

References

  1. Manser, Riaan (13 September 2010). Around Africa on My Bicycle. Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN   978-1-86842-401-6.