Meet the Founder
KHANYI MAGUBANE
Khanyi Magubane is a seasoned Radio Broadaster, TV and Film Producer, Entrepreneur and Speaker/MC with 20 years media experience.
She runs a media and communications agency, Zinokwanda Media and Communications.
She has cut her teeth across the various media platforms of Radio/TV/Online and Print and has been widely recognised for her work in broadcast media.
A trained journalist by profession, she is armed with a BA (Communication) and BA (Hons) Journalism both from RAU (now the University of Johannesburg).
As a journalist, she begun her career at Talk Radio 702 in 2000. She then moved on to YFM in October 2003, where she was an Afternoon and Breakfast drive-time news anchor. In 2006 she moved to SAfm, where she worked as a producer and later as a radio broadcaster, a position she held for 13 years.
For 12 years she also presesnted SAfm’s flaship religious show – Living Sounds – which focused on religious discussions and showcased local and international gospel music.
She then moved to early morning when she presented Sound Awake from 3 – 5am. The show broke many barriers, like having live guests in as early as 4am in studio. After a year of doing the show, Magubane felt it was time to focus on other aspects of her career, and she left the SABC in March 2019.
In addition to her broadcast work, Magubane is running a media and communications agency, Zinokwanda Media and Communications.
The agency offers dynamic media solutions across three divisons; Media Consultancy, Film and TV Production and PR/Events.
Khanyi has produced extensively for television across formats from socio-political documentaries, Talk Shows and made-for-tv films.
In 2019, Magubane was the Executive Producer of a Mzansi Magic original movie entitled, “Thembeka Wami” which debuted on channel 161 and enjoyed many repeats on the channel.
In 2013 Magubane was recognised as one of Mail &Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in the field of Film and Media for her immense contribution in the field.
She was selected as one of 500 young leaders from over 50,000 applicants from the whole of Africa to attend the fellowship in the U.S.
In November 2014, Magubane returned with a hard hitting four-part socio-political documentary series entitled, “Making Cents” that interrogated the root causes of the economic inequalities in South Africa.
In also in 2014, Magubane was the recipient of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative, a legacy leadership program of US President Barack Obama.
A trained journalist by profession, she is armed with a BA (Communication) and BA (Hons) Journalism both from RAU (now University of Johannesburg).
As a journalist she started her career at Talk Radio 702 in 2000. She then moved on to YFM where she was a drive-time news Anchor. In 2006 she moved to SAfm, where she still currently is as a broadcaster.