Thabile Ngwato - Who Is She? Is She Married? 7 Interesting Facts

Thabile Ngwato is a leading young South African journalist, on-air personality, news anchor, MC, and entrepreneur. She is best known as a primetime and current affairs anchor at SABC News, and the co-founder of the DSTV channel Newzroom Afrika whose mark remains indelible in the South African broadcast industry.

The presenter is among the most sought-after voice-over news anchor, and on-air personalities, who have revolutionalized the South African broadcasting landscape with cutting-edge journalism practices, in contemporary times.

Interesting facts about Thabile Ngwato

1. Thabile Ngwato Was Born In South Africa

Thabile Ngwato was born on 13 May 1990 in Mpumalanga, South Africa where she was raised. Unlike many other celebrities, the news anchor has been able to keep her private life tightly underarms, and away from media light so much so that there is hardly any information about her family, parents, siblings or even educational background at the moment.

In 2018, she revealed that her mother was the one who thought her how to dream and also how to chase her dreams.

2. She Kicked Off Her Career At YFM

Ngwato set the ball rolling for her Journalism career when she joined YFM, a youth radio station based in Johannesburg in 2012. While at YFM, Thabile anchored the program Sistahood, an educational youth show, which became her on-air debut. Subsequently, she left YFM in 2013 to join e.tv’s youth programming block Craz-E.

3. She Joins The SABC TV News As A Producer And Then As Anchor

After leaving e.tv’s Craz-e, the talented presenter, landed a job at SABC as a primetime, and current affairs news anchor on SABC 3 and SABC news channel 404. She was 23 years old when she joined the SABC. She remained with the station until 2018 when she exited after conceiving the idea of starting off her own company.

4. She Grew up Being Inspired by BBC’s South African Born Presenter, Lerato Mbele

The on-air hostess has always been inspired by Lerato Mbele, the veteran South African-born BBC presenter. Ngwato often admitted to watching her a lot when she was younger, stressing that she has always regarded Lerato as her role model. This was as a result of the fact that Ngwato has always dreamed of becoming a famous presenter when she grows up just like Lerato Mbele.

5. Aside from her Journalism Career, She is also an Entrepreneur

Away from the big screens, Thabile is also an accomplished entrepreneur. She founded her company Rapid Innovations in 2018, which specializes in innovations, technology, and development. It aims at developing technological and digital solutions to contemporary issues.

6. She is also a Co-Founder of the DSTV Channel Newzroom Africa

Having earlier established her company Rapid Innovations, her strong entrepreneurial spirit led her into taking a step further, establishing the news channel called Newzroom Africa in partnership with Thokozani Nkosi of Eclipse TV.

The channel is a subsidiary of her company Rapid Innovations. It was first announced in August 2018 by MultiChoice, shortly after the ANN7’s contract folded up amidst the emergence of the Gupta scandal. Nonetheless, Newzroom Africa was launched on 1 May 2019, as DSTV ch405.

For her achievements in the field of Journalism thus far, the pacesetter has been recognized by the Global African Awards with an Outstanding Services To Media and Journalism award in 2021. She got the recognition alongside Thokozani Nkosi. In 2018, she took home the Glamour South African Women Of The Year Award.

7. Is Thabile Ngwato Married?

In recent times, many of Thabile’s fans have been edgy to know whether the prolific media personality is married, or has been in any relationship. All the same, from our findings, she has been once rumored to be in a relationship with Kaizer Chiefs captain and former Orlando Pirates Jimmy Tau.

Her alleged love affair with the former footballer came in barely three months after his breakup with Sizakele Manonga. The rumors became intense after the former Orlando Pirates footballer was spotted with the Thabile, having launch together. Despite that, the tales of their alleged romance later ebbed away as the alleged lovebirds couldn’t confirm nor deny the rumors.

Again, Thabile was also romantically linked with Sizwe Dhlomo, after pictures of the duo’s vacation in Japan went viral on Instagram, which seemingly suggests they are head over heels.

By and large, it is believed that at the moment, the TV personality and entrepreneur is still single.