Lerato Mbele

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Lerato Mbele
Mbele in 2019
Born
Education
Occupation(s)Journalist, broadcaster
Television

Lerato Mbele

Newsday.[2]

Early life

Mbele was born in Soweto, South Africa and grew up in Pimville.[3] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in politics and international relations from the University of Cape Town and a master's in development studies from a university in London.

Career

Mbele began working for the

South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1999, rising to become an anchor for its programme News at Ten. [4] In 2007 Mbele joined CNBC Africa at its launch as one of the channel's senior business presenters. While at CNBC she hosted regular programmes on the channel in addition to coverage of many other business events, such as the World Economic Forum.[5]

In 2012 Mbele joined

BBC World News
and on World Business Report.

In 2014 Mbele was named a Young Global Leader by the Switzerland based World Economic Forum, in the cohort selected that year.

References

  1. ^ "Presenter profile: Lerato Mbele-Roberts". BBC News. 30 January 2019.
  2. ^ "PressReader - CityPress: 2018-04-15 - JUST THE TWO OF US". Archived from the original on 23 April 2019 – via PressReader.
  3. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/mbele_lnb/status/1142710939529240577. Retrieved 8 May 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "BBC World Service – Newsday". BBC.
  5. ^ "Annual Meetings 2018 – African Development Bank". www.afdb.org.
  6. ^ "Redirecting..." www.sundayworld.co.za. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)