ZAMANTUNGWA KHUMALO
Property entrepreneur
If you’ve ever signed up to receive newsletters and information from property database, Private Property, Zamantungwa Khumalo is a name that will be familiar to you. She is a property entrepreneur with an interest in Cities of the Future; an awardwinning media and content specialist with experience in radio, television, digital and print, and a world-class moderator who has moderated conversations with presidents, ministers, top executives, and leaders of non-profit organisations and higher institutions of learning.
Zamantungwa is the host of the only daily property talk show in South Africa, The Private Property Podcast with Zamantungwa Khumalo. In 2019, she was awarded the Best Young Achiever Award by the premier of Gauteng, David Makhura, during the Premier’s Service Excellence Awards, for her work in advancing youth issues. In the same year, she was appointed to the Department of Higher Education,
Science and Technology Ministerial Task Team on the 4th Industrial Revolution by Minister Naledi Pandor. Zamantungwa was head of content: supplements & commercial projects at the Mail & Guardian. While in this role, she was one of the winners of the 2019 African Digital Media Awards. The multi-platform #MG200Young project she spearheaded at Mail & Guardian won in the Best Digital Project to Engage Younger and/ or Millennial Audiences category.
Prior to joining Mail & Guardian, she was the executive producer at the talk radio station, Power FM, and during her tenure, the station won multiple awards at the Liberty Radio Awards, and secured exclusive broadcasting rights to the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Kigali, Rwanda – a first of the kind broadcast at the WEF meeting. Her media career started at campus radio stations with her eventually being anchor and producer for her show on Voice of Wits FM. Zamantungwa is a Global Shapers Community alumna and was a Global Shaper in the Tshwane Hub for seven years. She has been selected twice as one of 50 African Global Shapers to participate in the WEF on Africa meetings in Nigeria (2014) and Rwanda (2016). In 2017, she attended the WEF on Africa meeting in Durban, South Africa – being one of the youngest media leaders in that year’s meeting. In the same year, she was named one of 50 Changemakers Advancing Women’s Equality in South Africa by digital agency, Treeshake.
Zamantungwa has represented South Africa at youth conferences across the world, including the Model United Nations Debates; the Y20/ G20 Delegates’ Summit in Mexico, as well as the G8/G20 Youth Summits in Washington DC, USA. She was a speaker at TEDxYouth@Soweto and was the co-curator for the first ever TEDx Wits University event. In 2015, Zamantungwa was accepted into the Young Global Leaders ‘Innovation and Immersion in Africa’, Wits education module, hosted by the Wits Business School. She was a delegate at the Civil BRICS Summit and was a speaker at the first-ever BRICS Youth Summit in Russia. She founded her first non-profit, Teenagers Responsible in Building Ekasi, at the age of 12.