Lebo Motsoeli
The Sports Anchor!
Lebo Motsoeli is one of the leading women in sports broadcasting. She’s the 2017 and 2018 Woman In Media Gsport award winner, 2016 Ministerial award winner, and an SAB Merit award winner.
She’s the Sport Anchor on SABC1 and hosts SABC 2’s weekly “Ladies Club”, a show focused on women in sport.
She’s on Metrofm on between 12h00-15h00 on weekdays, and is the Voice of SABC3, SABC Sport and Rap Studios.
In 2014, Lebo became the first female in South African television to host Fifa World Cup football games. She gave a repeat performance during the 2018 Fifa World Cup, and was also selected to cover the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She was the only woman to host the Africa Cup Of Nations live matches in South Africa in 2012 and 2013. She excelled in the role, and continues to show equal talent to her male counterparts, in the male dominated industry.
In 2012, she was the Host of the Africa Cup Of Nations Draw, which took place in Durban, KZN. The draw was broadcast to all the participating countries in Africa, and worldwide. In the same year, she was given her own sport show, the Sport Preview Show, broadcast on SABC 1 in primetime.
A career highlight was at the start of the World Cup 2010, when Lebo was the only South African presenter to co-host a world Cup program for Eurosport, transmitting to over 32 countries worldwide. She shared sets with RogerMilla and Arsen Wenger. In the three years building to the 2010 Fifa World Cup, she Anchored Countdown 2010, the official Fifa World Cup programme on SABC television, broadcasting to millions of South Africans.
She joined David O’Sullivan every Sunday from 13h30 to 14h30 to host sport On2, and was host of the SABC Sport channel on SABC 3, Gymnastics and hockey programme 'Inside Out', and Sportsbuzz. A natural for the small screen, Lebo moved into the world of Sports broadcasting in 2003 as a voice over artist and scriptwriter for the youth programme Sportsbuzz. She followed this with a sports programme dedicated to women – Women in Sport.
Recognition came in the form of the SAB Newcomer of the Year Merit Award in 2006 and being given the January 2007 slot in Women in Media by GSport. Her involvement in sport also includes the programme Amakrokokroko, Pedal Talk, FNB African Soccer Show and being the face of the Siyanqoba 2010 Campaign. She reported live every year from the Comrades Marathon, Two Oceans Marathon and Cape Argus Cycle Tour, which had her interviewing the Hollywood star Matt Damon in 2009.
In 2005, she travelled to Brazil to report on the International Wheelchair an Amputee Sports Federation World Games (IWAS Games). This was her first international reporting job for SABC Sport. She followed this success as a live Television and Radio reporter for the International Paralympics World Athletics Champions 2006 in Amsterdam. In 2007, Lebo made her mark at the Special Olympics where she reported the 10 day spectacular of 21 sporting codes with precision and flamboyant personal style. She went on to host the 2007 All Africa Games in Algeria, a test on her sports knowledge as she was South Africa’s only link to the Continental Event. Lebo brought us the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympics Games, which led to her Nomination for 2009 Best presenter in the SAB Sport Journalist of the Year Nomination.
A natural born communicator, Lebo has also been in the centre of South Africa’s communication hub, Avusa Media, where she was a Lifestyle and fashion Editor for Soccerlife.
She’s also presented The Rama Monate Show; Glory hallelujah, the Coca Cola Game show, the Sunsilk programme and Crazy Games and the NedbankKeyona Team search.
As an MC, Lebo has hosted The SA Sport Awards; SA Boxing awards; Unilever’s Global Hand-wash day; National Women’s Day at the Union Buildings and Sunsilk Launch, to name a few.
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