Thabo molefe biography sample
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Johannesburg. 07 September 2020 – Global information and insights company TransUnion has announced Thabo Molefe as its new senior director for its African operations outside of South Africa as it looks to leverage its global capabilities and build its profile across the continent.
Molefe, the former executive director for South Africa & Rest of Africa for content and technology solutions provider LexisNexis, replaces Chad Reimers, who moves to a new position within TransUnion’s wider global business. Molefe will take responsibility for business development, stakeholder and regulatory engagement, and overall operations in sju countries in East and Southern Africa*.
Lee Naik, the chief executive officer of TransUnion Africa, said TransUnion’s wider Africa capability was ‘a critical part’ of the company’s portfolio growth strategy, and that he was looking forward to extending its offering beneath Molefe’s leadership.
“Thabo has extensive experience in growing markets across Af
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Tbo Touch (real name Thabo Molefe) has launched a new video on demand offering, which will utmaning the dominance of Netflix and Showmax in South Africa.
THD24 will focus primarily on local empowerment, including South African-focused content and job creation within the space.
How it came about
“A lot of VODs in the country have international movies and series, but where is job creation in all of that? We’re going to brag about our catalogue, but you have products that we saw on Ster-Kinekor and Box Office. So, I’m taking humble steps to say ‘all graduates from film schools, komma into THD24. We’re going to create sitcoms, series, vodcasts’,” he explains.
The idea was sparked when Tbo Touch was filming a movie called Blessers. He noticed how 120 people had been hired around the project (caterers, gaffers, hair and make-up, wardrobe etc.).
“It’s all because of what I learned at Touch HD. Radio online is an expensive exerc
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‘An honest, touching and important read.’ – Dr Peet van Aardt, author
and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of the Free State.
‘When we moved from the farm, my mother was especially concerned
about my survival. How would her youngest child negotiate the drama
of township life; how would he transform from a suspected maplazini to
an accepted urban, township boy?’
As a child, Thabo Abram Molefe, along with his family, is impelled into the apartheid-era tradition of rural-to-urban transition. Moving from a farm to a multi-ethnic and vibrant township in the heart of Heidelberg, the birthplace of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s AWB, proves to be both a challenge and an adventure as he works to evade the nickname that has followed him as a result – ‘maplazini’, Sotho for dumb country bumpkin.
Native Boy explores a young man’s complex relationship with identity and race, seen through the lens of township life. Moreover, it is about his journey to escape the socio-econom