Sizwe Dhlomo is a 39-year-old media personality and farmer who works as an MTV Base VJ and is Kaya’s driving advisor on Kaya FM. Isaac Dhlomo, a wealthy South African farmer, was her grandfather. Sizwe Dhlomo, who quit his job as a computer programmer in 2005 to become the first MTV Base VJ, has never looked back in his career as a radio and TV presenter. As a result, he has worked in several radio and television stations. And his career, which has spanned more than a decade and a half, has garnered accolades, including a nomination for the 2021 SA Radio Awards.
How old is Sizwe Dhlomo?
Sizwe Dhlomo was 39 years old. On June 21, 1983, the famous media personality was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. His astrological sign is Cancer. Dhlomo is a member of the Zulu tribe. After becoming the first MTV Base VJ in the early twenties, his light began to shine brightly on the international stage. Sizwe Dhlomo has risen to prominence as one of South Africa’s most in-demand radio and television hosts.
Who are Sizwe Dhlomo’s parents?
Sizwe Dhlomo said in November 2022 on Podcast and Chill MacG that he grew up in a strict environment. He has kept the identity of his parents a secret, although he sometimes writes about them on social media. Sizwe’s father took over his father’s farming business while his mother taught at a school.
In one of his Instagram posts, the Kaya FM host revealed that his parents were civilly married in 1982. They have been married for almost 40 years and are still together.
Datuk Sizwe Dhlomo
Isaac Dhlomo, a KwaZulu-Natal man, was Sizwe Dhlomo’s grandfather. During the apartheid period, he was a wealthy farmer who bought property in KwaZulu-Natal. Among the four famous farm divisions are cattle breeding, agriculture, forestry and horse breeding. Datuk Sizwe came from a very poor family, although he was famous for his wealthy farming company. After his father died, Isaac Dhlomo had to drop out of school in the 4th grade and started working to support his mother and younger siblings. He eventually went into farming and was quite successful in it. Furthermore, Isaac Dhlomo is said to be a strong supporter of the African National Congress (ANC).
He is alleged to have helped Anton Lembede, the first president of the ANC Youth League, become a partner in the law firm Pixley ka Seme. In 1946, the ANCYL’s first president was named a partner in the legal business by Sizwe Dhlomo’s grandfather, who lent Lambede nearly R100,000 at the time. Furthermore, Isaac Dhlomo was friends with apartheid resistance hero Olivier Tambo and the late Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. After Kaunda’s death in 2021, media personalities paid tribute to him by releasing a picture of him and Tambo taken by his grandfather.
Is Sizwe Dhlomo related to anyone?
Sizwe Dhlomo is said to have two younger sisters, one of whom is named Thobeka Dhlomo. Surprisingly, the siblings of the popular radio hosts live in isolation, and therefore little information about their personal and professional lives is accessible. Sizwe, however, is believed to be a cousin of media mogul Khanyi Dhlomo. Khanyi Dhlomo is a 50-year-old writer and magazine editor born on 17 December 1972. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Industrial Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. He also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2007. Then, in 1995, cousin Sizwe Dhlomo became the SABC’s first black news anchor.
He worked as the editor of True Love Magazine for eight years before launching a media firm called Ndalo Media with Naspers in 2007. Destiny Magazine and its online extension were also founded by him. Khanyi Dhlomo established Luminance boutique in 2015. Sadly, her media venture, Ndalo Media, was closed four years later. It is worth mentioning that Khanyi was named the Most Influential Woman in South African Media in 2003 for her work.
At the age of 22, Sizwe Dhlomo got his first TV hosting gig.
Dhlomo had to leave his job as a computer programmer in 2005, when he was 22, to pursue a career in broadcasting. He won a talent contest on MTV Base at the time. As a result, he became the music station’s first video jockey. In the inaugural season of MTV Base World Chart Express, he received his first VJ job.
Over the years, he has worked with music stations and interviewed celebrities such as John Legend, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Akon, 2-Face, and Sean Paul. Sizwe Dhlomo flew to the VMAs in Scotland in 2014 as part of the MTV Base contingent from around the world. Meanwhile, in 2010, he served as the digital presenter of the 16th South African Music Awards, hosted at Suncity.
In the same year, he began co-hosting SABC1 Live with Bonang Matheba. His tenure was however short-lived, since he resigned in 2011. Following that, Sizwe Dhlomo worked as a presenter at SuperSport. He is also a member of the Africa Newsroom squad.
Dhlomo’s Radio Career Started In The Early 2010s
Sizwe Dhlomo left SABC1 to pursue a career in radio, joining YFM. In 2013, he left the radio station to become a member of the 947 crew. While there, he worked as a broadcaster for radio 702 FM and Cape Talk. Clearly, his charisma and understanding of youth culture has made him one of South Africa’s most recognizable voices on both radio and television.
Sizwe Dhlomo was appointed as the presenter of the next afternoon drive program on Kaya FM in June 2020, with his career still on the rise. He took over as host of the program the following month, replacing Ndumiso Ngcobo and Kgomotse Matsunyane. He is still the host of the Kaya Drive program as of this writing, and he has made the afternoon drive show quite famous across the country.
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