Timothy Modise is a South African veteran journalist, broadcaster, public speaker and philanthropist. Boasting over thirty years in broadcast media and journalism, Modise has worked for various radio and TV stations of the

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and

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across different formats from music, current affairs and talk shows. He was inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame in 2011.

Broadcasting

Although grounded in the music formatted stations for five years of his early broadcasting career, the veteran journalist transitioned to the talk format in 1988. He later introduced politically oriented talk, participating extensively in the coverage of the transition from '

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' to the new 'constitutional democracy', reporting and commenting on the unbanning of the ANC and other liberation movements, the release of political prisoners, the uprisings, and subsequent negotiations that ushered in the South Africa of today. He provided voter education on his programmes, hosted the debates leading to the elections of 1994 which he also covered on both radio and TV. His highlight was being a panelist on the Mandela/De Klerk debate which was broadcast to a global audience of 800 million. He has interviewed all South African Presidents since 1990. He continues to cover South African public affairs and through his company FGPMedia, produces his own TV shows as well as his radio show on @touchhdonline. Tim Modise hosts his own current affairs shows on eNCA called �
The Modise Network
‘ and another on Soweto TV called ''Tonight with Tim Modise''. He also promotes entrepreneurship with research compan
Plus94 Research
collaborating on their support platform called BizNexus.

Other work

Tim Modise has also worked as a political analyst for AMB Securities &

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, a columnist for City Press newspaper and was appointed the founding chairman of

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by President

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. He briefly worked as Chief Communications Officer of

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and later became CEO of Sizwe IT, a technology company. He has started a digital publication called Modise.net to promote entrepreneurship and the South African economy. He is a public speaker who has also given keynote speeches at graduation ceremonies of universities of Cape Town, Tshwane,

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and Wits. He has moderated and facilitated a variety of conferences and MC’d major events including Cape Town Jazz, Mandela 85 Birthday Ubuntu Awards & the Loerie Awards with

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and

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He is involved in education and health sectors in his home community of Garankuwa as patron of the Tim Modise Primary School, member of

Sefako Makgatho University Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU; ) is a medical university in Ga-Rankuwa, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its current incarnation was formed on 1 January 2015. Previously, it was known as Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNS ...

and board member of George Mukhari Hospital.

Recognition

He has received numerous awards for community development, communication, broadcasting, reconciliation from IJR &

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as well as for human rights from the Jaime Brunet Foundation, University of Navarro in Spain.

Education and personal life

He obtained Advanced Management Diploma (AMP) from

Henley Business School Henley Business School is a business school which is affiliated with the University of Reading. It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College (formerly the Administrative Staff College) with the existing business ...

, Marketing Certificate UNISA, Financial Management Diploma from Damelin. Modise lives with his children in Kyalami, Johannesburg and enjoys music and reading biographies, world current affairs and developments.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Modise, Tim 1961 births Living people People from Pretoria South African Tswana people South African television journalists South African radio presenters