PRESENTER SEARCH ON 3
Harmony and Palesa are reaching for Presenter Search gold.
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Presenter Search On 3 Season 4 Thursday 2 August SABC3 (*193) 19:30
The remaining six presenter hopefuls leap through their final hoops in the grand finale of the Presenter Search On 3 (2010- current) competition on Thursday 2 August. Depending on the weather, they could be headed anywhere and doing anything from sketching underwater to paragliding. Three finalists will win their dream job on their chosen show and we spoke to two of them about their TV hopes – DRC-born voiceover artist and model Harmony Katulondi and Durban-based actress and YouTube star Palesa Tembe.
HARMONY
“I present at my church, I volunteer and I’m a Sunday School teacher, so I have been presenting since I was about 14 or 15,” says Harmony. “A lot of the time I am shy, but when it comes to performing, something just comes out! But on camera I don’t know what happens,” he admits. “You do get a bit nervous, you get a bit scared. And when I watch myself on TV, I feel like, ‘Eaurgh! I don’t know how my voice sounds!’ I am definitely my biggest critic: ‘I should have walked like this, I should have done that.’ I am always looking to improve, so I watch myself and think, ‘Hmm, I must stop doing this and my head must be up or down. I am always looking at those little technical things. But presenting is just a conversation with someone and if you can connect with someone, you can have that conversation – whether it’s to a camera or the person on the other side of that camera.”
Harmony mixes a keen interest in fashion with a desire for African unity – which he wants to bring into the Top Billing (1992- current) team. “I was born in DRC, Congo but I grew up and lived in South Africa since I was three years old. I bring the whole of Africa into this thing. I am usually dressed in African print and I speak both English and French and I can speak local South African languages. It’s a beautiful harmony of beautiful things,” he says laughing. “Now the world is recognising us as more than just a place we give money to for aide and charity. Kenzo did a line with African print and then in 2017 Louis Vuitton had the (Basotho) blanket-type vibe going and now the world is recognising Africa.”