Redi Tlhabi

Redi Tlhabi is a South African journalist, producer, author and a radio presenter (as of June 2017) working for Primedia.

Tlhabi has an Honours degree in Political Economy and English Literature. She has been a television and radio journalist for the SABC and eTV.[1]

After 12 years of working for 702, a radio station in South Africa, Tlhabi will be leaving to the US to complete a fellowship.[2]

Controversy

In 2013, Tlhabi won the Alan Paton Award for her book, Endings and Beginnings.[3][4] The book describes Tlhabi's relationship with a notorious gangster as she was growing up, after the death of her father. Tlhabi claims that she changed the names of the characters, but the mother of a gangster of the same name claims that the names are accurate but is disputing some of the facts in the book.[5]

Books

  • Endings & Beginnings: A Story of Healing. Jacana Media. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4314-0461-2.

Awards

Personal life

Tlhabi married Brian Tlhabi, a medical practitioner, in 2010.

References

  1. ↑ "Redi Tlhabi". tvsa.co.za. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Redi Tlhabi leaves 702 for the US". The Citizen. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Tlhabi 2013.
  4. ↑ "Redi Tlhabi Wins the 2013 Alan Paton Award for Endings and Beginnings". Books Live. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Angry mother's reaction to Redi Tlhabi comments". The Citizen. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
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