As a respected business news anchor and moderator, Nzinga Qunta brings a commanding presence, intellectual depth, and journalistic precision to her role as an event emcee. With a strong background in broadcast journalism particularly in economics and business, Nzinga is uniquely equipped to host conferences, summits, and corporate events where clarity, credibility, and insight are paramount.
In her emcee role, Nzinga is responsible for setting the tone of the event, ensuring a smooth flow between sessions, engaging the audience thoughtfully, and facilitating conversations with depth and relevance. Her calm authority and ability to synthesize complex topics in real-time make her particularly well-suited for high-stakes events, panel moderation, and thought leadership forums. Whether leading a CEO fireside chat or welcoming global delegates, Nzinga brings professionalism, sharp thinking, and a warm, composed presence to the stage.
Nzinga Qunta is a seasoned business news anchor and program director who brings broadcast polish and editorial rigour to conferences, forums and live-streamed events. In the clip you provided she moderates the Nation Brand Forum, welcoming government ministers, industry leaders and online participants while driving audience interaction via social hashtags and live polling.
Nzinga’s strengths are crisp stagecraft, smooth transitions between in-room and online audiences, precise audience instructions (AV/hashtag/call-to-action), and the ability to manage high-profile protocols and sensitive timing requirements. She’s ideal for investor forums, government-industry panels, economic summits and any format that needs a steady, media-trained anchor to hold content together under pressure.
Nzinga Qunta is a business news anchor with over a decade of experience in radio and television. She is currently anchoring SABC News’ flagship business news bulletin, OnPoint, where she focuses on the top business news stories from across the world and speaks to a range of decision makers on the top stories of the day.
She works on radio on an adhoc basis, on Kaya 959’s Business Show, Kaya Biz, and their current affairs show, Point of View.
Nzinga Qunta is a seasoned moderator who facilitates high level conferences, events and seminars with a focus on business, entrepreneurship, innovation, education and tech.
Her work includes facilitating discussions at the World Economic Forum’s virtual Davos Dialogues in 2021, a discussion with CEOs and the President of South Africa on the South African economy and investment in Davos, Switzerland, MCing theSouth Africa Investment Conference each year since its inception, interviewing the founder of the $365 billion tech company Alibaba, Jack Ma, facilitating discussions at WEF Africa with the Presidents of the Seychelles, and Namibia amongst Nzinga Qunta is trusted to host heads of state, CEOs, and business leaders and is known for being able to ask the right questions, keep time and moderate fairly and professionally.
Nzinga Qunta has moderated events and discussions for corporates and institutions such as Microsoft, Old Mutual, Altron, Standard Bank, Nedbank, CIPS, Brand SA, Fundi, Business Leadership South Africa, Brand Finance SA, Wits Business School and more.
Besides her ability to hold weighty conversations with international guests with poise and grace, Nzinga Qunta is also known for her distinctive, elegant African attire. Qunta has a Law degree as well as an English literature qualification which serve in her ability to be logical, find the best way to conduct proceedings and add gravitas to whichever events she may be booked for.
Nzinga is able to MC and facilitate discussions, conferences, events and seminars with a focus on business, entrepreneurship and innovation in both an intimate and large setting.
She has a wealth of experience and expertise that she has learnt from her time in Journalism and MCiing at key corporate events and facilitating panel discussions
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At the 5th Nation Brand Forum Nzinga Qunta opens with a warm, formally pitched welcome to both in-venue delegates and remote viewers. She acknowledges senior guests (Deputy Minister, Presidency representatives and continental officials), establishes the programme’s purpose reflecting on national rebuilding and reassuring both local and international stakeholders and sets the rules for participation.
Nzinga gives clear, practical instructions: use the event hashtag (#nbf21, #believeinsouthafrica) for questions and polling across Facebook and YouTube, adhere to COVID-19 protocols in the hall, and respect session timing so international guests can dial in punctually. Her handover is efficient and professional as she invites Dr Jessica Bargueno (first speaker) to the stage, using applause to mark the transition. The clip demonstrates Nzinga’s command of hybrid formats, stage timing, audience management and protocol for high-level public-private discussions.
02:14–02:35 – Warm welcome to in-room and online audiences; acknowledgement of Deputy Minister and Presidency.
02:36–02:58 – Programme framing: focus on rebuilding, delivery and international reassurance.
02:59–03:20 – Engagement mechanics: event hashtags (#nbf21 / #believeinsouthafrica), comments and poll participation instructions.
03:21–03:45 – Practical reminders: COVID-19 protocols, mask use and social distancing for in-room attendees.
03:46–04:00 – Timing note for international guests; gentle stage cue: wrap up when Nzinga is on stage.
04:01–04:20 – Handover: invites Dr Jessica Bargueno to the stage and prompts audience applause.
In this excerpt Jack Ma (Ma Yun), moderated by Nzinga Qunta, begins telling his early life and the lessons that shaped his entrepreneurial journey. He describes being born into a modest family, struggling academically with repeated exam failures in primary and middle school, and failing entrance attempts to university in his early years. Unable to continue immediately into higher education, he started looking for work and faced numerous rejections a period that taught him persistence and resilience.
Ma’s candid recounting reframes failure as formative: each setback pushed him to try again, eventually leading from a modest teaching job into founding Alibaba and building one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms. These anecdotes underscore three practical takeaways for entrepreneurs: persistence through rejection, learning from repeated failure, and the long arc from small beginnings to global impact. (Background on Jack Ma and Alibaba for context).
00:56–01:10 – Jack Ma: humble family background; modest means and early life context. Wikipedia
01:11–01:30 – Academic struggle: repeated exam failures in primary and middle school; notes others saw him as hopeless.
01:31–01:55 – University entrance attempts: failed first- and second-year entry attempts; began job search afterward.
01:56–02:10 – Early work life: applied for many jobs without success; resilience theme and audience acknowledgement/applause.
In this panel introduction Nzinga Qunta opens the World Economic Forum session on achieving universal health coverage. She welcomes attendees and frames the discussion by naming the session’s high-level participants and the stakes: access to basic health services remains out of reach for large parts of the population. Nzinga names the format and logistics for the audience and sets a sober context with headline statistics: at least 50 percent of Africa’s population lacks access to basic health services, and roughly 400 million people globally do not have access to essential care.
She highlights the human and economic costs of out-of-pocket healthcare spending that pushes millions into extreme poverty yearly, then defines universal health coverage as ensuring all individuals and communities can obtain the health services they need without financial hardship.
The clip functions as a crisp programme primer: it identifies key guest types (heads of state, global health funders, clinicians, and health-technology leaders), establishes the scale of the problem in plain terms, and positions the panel to move from diagnosis to solutions — financing, workforce, and technology. Nzinga’s framing provides both urgency and structure, preparing the audience for technical discussion while keeping the conversation grounded in public impact.
01:05–01:30 – Nzinga Qunta welcomes attendees and introduces the session topic: achieving universal health coverage.
01:31–01:55 – Acknowledges panel composition: heads of state, global funders, NGO clinicians and private-sector partners.
01:56–02:20 – Presents headline data: severe access gaps in Africa; 400 million people worldwide lacking basic services; out-of-pocket costs pushing families into poverty.
02:21–02:40 – Defines universal health coverage: access to needed services without financial hardship and sets agenda for panel discussion.
In this panel introduction Nzinga Qunta summarises the government’s infrastructure priorities and hands the stage to Dr Jose Mohopa (Head: Infrastructure South Africa) for an update. She notes infrastructure’s broad impact from the green economy to social infrastructure and new revenue streams and flags blended-finance opportunities across water, ICT and energy sectors.
Nzinga references the creation of a dedicated office within the Presidency tasked with consolidating infrastructure delivery and aligning investments to a national target of R1.2 trillion. She recalls that the first Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium produced a public pipeline of 62 projects, and frames the discussion as forward-looking: what to expect next in special economic zones, project pipelines, and investment-ready opportunities. The segment positions the panel to move from policy framing to practical project updates and investor signals.
01:10–01:30 – Opening: Nzinga thanks the president for context and stresses infrastructure’s cross-cutting importance to the green economy, social services and revenue streams.
01:31–01:45 – Policy instruments: mentions blended finance and sector focus (water, ICT, energy) as investment priorities.
01:46–02:00 – Delivery architecture: cites the Presidency’s special office and the R1.2 trillion investment target.
02:01–02:20 – Project pipeline: references the 62 projects announced after the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium and signals a handover.
02:21–02:40 – Handover: invites Dr Jose Mohopa to the stage to provide project updates and next steps.
Yes, she regularly cues online participation and integrates social questions into the programme.
Yes, she opens sessions for ministers and high-level delegations in the clip.
Yes, standard brief with organisers and AV team recommended to align run-of-show and timings.
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