Tsepiso Makwetla is a broadcaster and journalist with more than 20 years\u2019 experience in broadcasting and journalism. Tsepiso has hosted many events, including recently the premier launch of Mandela-Long Walk to Freedom in South Africa (2013); the Nelson Mandela Foundation\u2019s Top 100 Business event during the organisation\u2019s Annual Lecture period and their Aids Dialogues (2013). Tsepiso also does philanthropic work with both the NMF and Breadline Africa \u2013 mainly centred around the Mandela Library projects. She still continues training work which she started while at Primedia in 1999, training interns and or junior journalists, but have in the past years included media training for individuals or companies in better understanding the media or how to effectively use the media space.<\/p>\n
This training has also encompassed training Ambassadors or Heads of Missions being posted to various countries for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. Tseoiso has a keen interest in African politics, which has led her to; over the years cover various issues across the continent, including elections here at home in South Africa and in countries like Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana. But she has also covered socio-economic issues in places like the Sudan and Kenya, on Uganda, Mali, and other African countries. Her interviews span the length and breadth of political, business and civil society sectors from the grassroots to Captains of Industry to Heads of States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10208,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-4388","presenter","type-presenter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"presenter_description":"Tsepiso Makwetla is a broadcaster and journalist with more than 20 years\u2019 experience in broadcasting and journalism. She\u2019s currently the WHO Africa moderator for their online briefings on the Covid19 pandemic.Below is a list of some of her accomplishments and career experience: \u25aa 2018 IVLP Alumni \u2013 Edward R. Murrow program \u25aa International Monetary Fund in Washington ( She was roped in to help launch their youth dialogue at their Annual Summit in 2010); \u25aa International Parliamentary Union at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva Switzerland \u2013 requested to facilitate a three hour live television panel discussion on the attainment of MDG goals with more than 100 parliamentarians from all over the world (2008); \u25aa Co-host Women Deliver International Conference \u2013 Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 \u25aa Moderating at the high-level conference of the African Union on democracy and constitution making, 25-27 November 2013 \u2013 Dakar, Senegal; November 2017 Pretoria, South Africa \u25aa Guest speaker and facilitator the International youth conference on Elections in Abuja (2014) where she was both a facilitator and International Speaker","show":[4303]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presenter\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presenter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/presenter"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presenter\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16623,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presenter\/4388\/revisions\/16623"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show\/4303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}