About Kate
Kate Turkington (who holds a First Class Honours degree in English from London University and an MA Cum Laude in African Literature from Wits) is one of South Africa’s best-known broadcasters, travellers and travel writers.
Kate was recently given a “Commended” award in the CNN African Journalist Awards 2008 for an article on Ethiopia published in Travel magazine, entitled “Where Time Stands Still”.
Her weekly Sunday night three-hour live Talk Radio 702 / CapeTalk talkshow, Believe It Or Not, turned 15 in August 2007, and is now South Africa’s longest-running radio talkshow with the same host in the same time slot.
She has waltzed at dawn with a Chinese dance instructor in a Beijing square, fallen over Emperor penguins in Antarctica, lunched with a rajah in Rajasthan, dined with the Comrades in Cuba, been winched over a raging torrent 9000ft up in the Andes in Peru, climbed Ayers Rock in the red heart of Australia, broken bread with monks in Tibet’s oldest monastery, downed “thumbs” of pepper vodka in Russia, confronted Afar warriors armed with Kalashnikovs in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, and heard the stars sing in the Kalahari … and of course, lots, lots more …
She is married with four grown-up children and eight grandchildren.