Zamantungwa Khumalo is an award-winning media and content specialist with experience in radio, television, digital and print, a property investor and founder of All Things Property SA and My Money Date. She is the host of the only daily property talk show in South Africa, The Private Property Podcast. She was the Head of Content: Supplements & Commercial Projects at the Mail & Guardian. While in this role she was one of the winners of the 2019 African Digital Media Awards. The multiplatform #MG200Young project she spearheaded at the Mail & Guardian won in the "Best Digital Project to Engage Younger and/or Millennial Audiences" category.
She was the Executive Producer at the talk radio station Power FM, in charge of heading up content for the 24 hour talk radio station. During her tenure, the station won multiple awards at the Liberty Radio Awards, the premier radio awards in South Africa. Before her promotion to Executive Producer, Khumalo produced the Breakfast Show, Late Evening Show and the Drive Show. In 2015, the show she co-produced, POWER Drive, was nominated for two MTN Radio Awards. Khumalo was a judge for the Liberty Radio awards for three consecutive years.
In 2019 Khumalo was awarded the Best Young Achiever Award by the Premier of Gauteng, David Makhura during the Premier's Service Excellence Awards for her work in advancing youth issues both locally and internationally. In the same year, she was appointed to the Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology Ministerial Task Team on the 4th Industrial Revolution by Minister Naledi Pandor - she is the youngest member of the Task Team. Khumalo is a member of the Global Shapers Community (Tshwane Hub).
In 2016 Khumalo won the inaugural Global Shapers Community essay competition, where she wrote about responsible and responsive leadership , which saw her attending the 2017 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Her passion for international affairs has seen her representing South Africa at the United Nations for Model United Nations Debates; the Y20/G20 Delegates' Summit in Puebla, Mexico as well as the G8/G20 Youth Summits in Washington DC, USA. She was a Committee Member for the South African Youth for International Diplomacy. Khumalo has also represented South Africa at the One Young World Summit in Zurich.
In 2015 she was a delegate at the Civil BRICS Summit in Moscow Russia and a speaker at the first ever BRICS Youth Summit in Kazan, Russia. While in Russia, she was chosen by the then Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Buti Manamela to be a youth representative at the Heads of States Summit in Ufa, Russia.