PROFILE: Media entrepreneur Andile Khumalo takes it to the next level
After a career as an accountant, business talk show host and media investment partner, Khumalo aims to shake up the media landscape
"I’m going to give them what they want, when they want it, at a price that is accessible, and on a platform they want." That’s the promise of businessman Andile Khumalo as he articulates his vision for a new approach to media investment in SA in the face of digital disruption. Khumalo, an accountant who has worked for Investec, Deloitte and the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants, is perhaps best known as a former host of Power 98.7’s Power Business talk show. He was also treasurer of the Black Business Council as well as a nonexecutive director of SAA from 2012 to 2014. In 2007 he joined MSG Afrika Group, headed by Given Mkhari, as an equity partner. Khumalo has an energetic spirit and knows how to sell his book. He believes opportunities abound. "I was chief investment officer of MSG, MD of Power FM, quasi chief financial officer of MSG Afrika, and had a radio show." MSG is a diversified investment company with interests in Power 98.7 (Gauteng) and Capricorn FM (Limpopo), TV pro...
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