Today known as a mogul in the South African media and fashion spheres, Khanyi Dhlomo was only 16 when she discovered she had an interest in media after winning the Thandi Face Cover Girl competition. She studied journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand and in 1995 became the first black newscaster for SABC and that is when the whole country fell in love with her. She then left her very secure job at the SABC to become a fashion and beauty assistant at True Love magazine. Her risky move turned out to be a rather smart and bold one in terms of her success. At 22 she was appointed as the editor of the publication and within a year of her promotion she doubled the circulation from 70K to 140K.
She then founded her own media Company known as Ndalo Media which publishes Destiny and Destiny Man. After all was up and well she opened a first of its kind in Africa luxury department store called Luminance in Hyde Park.
In 2013 she was in the papers for a loan of R34.1m she received from the NEF, it was huge issue of how the NEF could fund a luxury venture and Khanyi was also accused of using her political connections to secure the loan. However what was hardly mentioned in the papers was that she paid back the loan in 1 year after she was given up to 5 years to pay it back(cava the shade mara).
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