Redi Direko Biography
Redi Direko is a South African author, columnist, radio and television presenter. She has worked in the Office of the Premier of the Western Cape, where she was appointed communications director in June 2004.
Redi Direko Age
She was born on 5th May 1978 in Orlando East, Soweto in South Africa.
Redi Direko Nationality
She is a South African citizen.
Redi Direko Education
She student at Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg where she graduated with a BA degree in Communications. In 2008, she obtained a degree in Social Sciences, English Literature and a Master’s degree in African Literature.
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Redi Direko Career
She is a broadcast journalist who has worked as a producer, radio and television presenter. She began at Network Radio News and later moved to Johannesburg-based Kaya FM, where she hosted the afternoon drive show and worked as a bulletin editor.
After three year stint at Kaya FM, she worked for the SABC as a reporter and later as a current affairs anchor and producer. The list of programs that she has presented includes Today in Africa, News Hour and Interface. Within 2006 and 2008, she presented a legal rights television talk show, Rights & Recourse, on SABC 3. In 2007, she was sent to Gleneagles in Scotland to cover the G8 summit as the African anchor for the UK’s Channel Four News.
In February 2005, she developed to a senior Eyewitness News journalist for Talk Radio 702 and in August of the same year, she went on to anchor the evening radio show ‘Talk at 9’. She is currently the host of ‘The Redi Direko show’, broadcast every weekday on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk.
In February of 2008, she became one of the co-anchors of the Primetime news bulletin for e.tv’s new 24-hour satellite news channel, eNews, also featuring Jeremy Maggs. She left the Primetime news bulletin in May 2009, citing her busy schedule and heavy workload as reasons.
Redi Direko Family
She hasn’t shared any information regarding her parents or family members but soon we have the information, we will update.
Redi Direko Marriage
She is married to Dr. Brian Tlhabi since 2010 and they have two children together. She is a stepmother to two daughters from Brian’s previous marriage, Lesego, and Ofentse.
Redi Direko Columnist
She writes a monthly column for the South African women’s magazine, Fairlady, as well as a weekly column for the Johannesburg-based Sowetan newspaper. Her first column in the Sowetan appeared in February 2009.
Redi Direko Brand Ambassador
She is a South African brand ambassador for Clarins, a French cosmetic company.
Redi Direko Runner
She is an avid runner. She has run the Comrades Marathon three times and is a member of the Rand Athletics Club.
Redi Direko Social Action
In 2008, Redi Direko made headlines for leading a protest against the sexual harassment of women. The protest, held in Johannesburg and made up of mini-skirt wearing women, was in response to the ordeal of a young woman at the Noord Street Taxi Rank who was attacked for wearing a mini-skirt.
Redi Direko Recognitions and Awards
In 2008 and 2009, she has been chosen as one of the Mail and Guardian’s Young South Africans you must take to lunch (in the media category). In 2008 she was presented with the Vodacom Women in The Media ‘Rising Star Award’.
In August 2009 she won the ‘Tomorrow’s Leader Award’ in the Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MIW) awards for 2009.
Redi Direko Book
In 2012 she wrote ‘Endings and Beginning’s (Jacana) which received popular and critical acclaim and received the Alan Paton Award in 2013.