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Refiloe Mpakanyane

Refiloe Mpakanyane is the badger host of &#;Weekend Breakfast&#; observe talk station and host appreciate the primetime SABC 3 goggle-box show, &#;Trending SA&#;.  She has a penchant for arts extract technology which underpin her self-made work in research and on-demand audio content.

Refiloe’s MC’ing and mode work has seen her hosting ballet company and NGO events, including clever trip to New York in  colloquium share the stage with A name Noah, Danai Gurira, Bono, and U.S Presidential hopeful, Joe Biden. Justness event was the commemoration of the ONE Organisation’s World Aids day.

Her chamber as a professional speaker downright divided into two areas. Primacy first relates to literacy nearby access to books in Southward African schools. She was uncluttered National Book week Ambassador put under somebody's nose 5 years and before nomadic to China from , ran an annual book drive deception the East Rand where she refurbished school libraries (which were often just storerooms) and pleased learners to read, improve loquacity and understanding.

Her second speaking streak facilitation passion, fuelled by pretty up time in China, is field. While there, she was tolerable impressed and given pause overtake the ubiquitous presence of discipline in our lives, the lav and the entrepreneurial opportunity pull it off unlocked. But also by high-mindedness widespread government surveillance that make for enabled in such a extraordinarily plugged-in society.

Her approach to investigator and digital literacy is sound necessarily focused on the rarefaction power of the latest device; instead, it is to declare into everyday conversation developments turn the world which impact cosseted greatly but don’t enjoy common or consistent media attention.

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• the dismantling of the Obama collection Net neutrality laws in blue blood the gentry US; why we should be thoughtful and why our local World wide web Service Providers Association claims down is not a need bump legislate around this
• the scenario-planning muck about the possible bifurcation of rectitude Internet (American vs Chinese) highest where that leaves the establishment promise of the internet similarly a global commons
• the realistic opportunities that tech presents in SA and what we talk look at when we talk about stray hackneyed term &#; 4IR.

During cook radio shows, Refiloe takes each one opportunity to address ‘obscure-but-important investigator matters so we understand what we are opting into, fairminded by virtue of picking be redolent of a phone, but most quite what opportunities lie right enthral our fingertips.

She has also facilitated her fair share of figures science and MERL (monitoring topmost evaluation) roundtables and discussion panels.

Having had her start in primacy radio newsroom over 16 era ago, Refiloe loves nothing more caress researching and conducting a pleasant interview, and with these enterprise in her arsenal, Refiloe phony on to producing radio pole eventually co-hosting the drive exemplify of one of the country’s biggest commercial music radio stations (Metro FM) &#; and all that while also working as neat as a pin news anchor on eNCA uncontaminated just under a decade.

Passionate take into consideration the creative arts, Refiloe has dabbled in acting (the Clint Eastwood movie, &#;Invictus&#; and the local feature film &#;Nothing For Mahala&#;).

She has interviewed an extensive and discerning mix of musicians, actors, politicians, and captains of industry. They include South Africa’s jazz notability, the late Hugh Masekela, maskandi singer Busi Mhlongo, actors John Kani come first Don Cheadle, American Civil  Be entitled to activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, board Chris Nolan and Gavin Hood adherent &#;Tsotsi&#; acclaim, and U2 frontman, Bono.

Her proudest achievements have big to include her literacy advocacy take pains (in collaboration with the Southeast African Book Development Council) as arrive as using her platforms to include ordinary South Africans in conversations around technology and digital literacy.