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Lerato Mbele is an international broadcaster, TV personality, and media consultant with a passion for Africa and its development.

She is the co-owner of “Moon Landing Media” (pty) Ltd and proprietor of the African Leadership Dialogues series. She also hosts a daily talk show and podcast titled “PowerTalk with Lerato Mbele” at Power987 in her native South Africa.

Prior to this Lerato spent nine years as a TV presenter and broadcaster for BBC World News, hosting the main Africa-focused business shows and international documentaries for programming that linked Africa’s relationships in global trade, commerce, and international development institutions.

Lerato has also been a senior business anchor at CNBC Africa and a prime-time news anchor in her native South African Broadcast Corporation. She has worked as a foreign policy researcher and advisor, in her capacity as head of the multiparty democracy programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and was co-editor of the book “Designing Democracy in Africa” with Ayesha Kajee.