Biography of basetsana kumalo agency

          Having studied at UNISA, Damelien, Harvard and Yale, she is the Director of a women owned coal-mining company, director of an award-winning travel agency and....

          Basetsana Kumalo

          South African TV personality (born 1974)

          Basetsana Julia "Bassie" Khumalo (née Makgalemele; born 29 March 1974)[1] is a South African television personality, beauty pageant titleholder, businesswoman, and philanthropist.[2] Her career began in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa at the age of 16.

          Basetsana Kumalo was Miss South Africa in She went on to present the iconic lifestyle show, Top Billing, before switching to the other side of the camera.

        1. Basetsana Kumalo was Miss South Africa in She went on to present the iconic lifestyle show, Top Billing, before switching to the other side of the camera.
        2. In , Bassie joined Travel with Flair as a Director, which won the Top Travel agency in , and in at the World Travel Awards, the agency won.
        3. Having studied at UNISA, Damelien, Harvard and Yale, she is the Director of a women owned coal-mining company, director of an award-winning travel agency and.
        4. Kumalo gives context to her life in this autobiography.
        5. Today, her businesses include Travel With Flair, a corporate travel agency she runs with her sister, Johanna Makgalemele.

          6. She was crowned Miss South Africa in 1994 and in the same year became the first runner-up in Miss World.

          Early life and education

          Kumalo was born in Soweto, South Africa. She and her two sisters and brother spent their early years helping to keep the family afloat, making sandwiches to sell at soccer matches every weekend.

          She attended Thabisang Primary School in Orlando West. When Soweto was engulfed by student unrest in 1986 she was then sent to Trinity Secondary School where she completed her matric. She was then enrolled for tertiary education at the University of Venda, and majored in an Education.[