About Kate
Kate Turkington (who holds a First Class Honours degree in English from London University and an MA Cum Laude from Wits) is one of South Africa's best-known broadcasters, travellers and travel writers. She was the first woman to be inducted into the MTN Radio Hall of Fame, and has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award 1st for Women Insurance Women in The Media Awards 2010.
Her weekly Sunday night three-hour live Talk Radio 702 / CapeTalk talkshow, Believe It Or Not, turned 20 in August 2012, and when it came to an end in early 2013 was 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, shivered at Everest Base Camp in Tibet, eyeballed Blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos Islands and heard the stars sing in the Kalahari ... and of course, lots, lots more ...
She has four grown-up children and nine grandchildren. Contact Kate at kate@kateturkington.com