This was the first live Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards since
2019. She holds a National Diploma in Journalism ’14 from Nelson Mandela University and a BTech Journalism from Tshwane University of Technology.
Eastern Cape born and raised multi-skilled young journalist Ntanjana, gained recognition for her story of Tatum de Pearce, a 32-year-old who has been helping her small rural community of Kroonstad with her soup kitchen.
The SABC Senior Producer and Bulletin writer is also a 2020 Regional Vodacom Young Journalist of the Year Award recipient and was further nominated among the national finalists in the same category – the same year.
Ntanjana is passionate about hard- hitting news, investigative pieces, and human-interest stories continuing to produce impactful articles that change lives.
She joined SABC in 2014 as a volunteer intern producer and later that year took on the role as a production coordinator for a Consumer Current Affairs Show, Yilungelo Lakho – a job that was an inch far from what she is most passionate about, journalism. She would voluntarily produce stories for the show, while executing her duties.
Due to her stellar work and passion for journalism, she officially became a producer for another current affairs program, Stories Untold in April 2019.
Currently, she is a senior producer for Stories Untold where she mentors’ producers and is responsible for the quality of content the show puts out, while still chasing on the ground hard- hitting news pieces and impactful human-interest stories.
In February 2022, she was appointed a stand- in Executive Producer (EP) for Stories Untold.
She joined SABC in 2014 as a volunteer intern producer and later that year took on the role as a production coordinator for a Consumer Current Affairs Show, Yilungelo Lakho – a job that was an inch far from what she is most passionate about, journalism. She would voluntarily produce stories for the show, while executing her duties. “I enjoy telling stories of the marginalized, the under-served/ those neglected by the powers that be, who promised to serve and protect them. The profession is far more than a job to me, I regard it as a calling, and something I know will forever occupy a huge part of her heart,” she said.
As the saying goes, “you never have to work a day in your life if you are living your passion.”
“I enjoy holding people into account, thus serving the country and stories I produces should always make a difference, that is what I strive for each day.