Banathi Mgqoboka is an award-winning South African multi-platform news media practitioner, writer and researcher. He has contributed to local and international media outlets, including Media24's print and digital news titles in South Africa, Vice Media's Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning Vice News unit (for U.S. cable network HBO), and others.
Banathi's work has earned him recognition at the prestigious Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards (South Africa) and Africa Check's continental African Fact-Checking Awards at the Wits Centre for Journalism (University of the Witwatersrand), among other honours.
A trained journalist and writer, Banathi is a four-time university graduate at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels of study with degrees in Journalism, Digital Media, Print Media and Media Studies, including a Master's Degree (MA) from Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Banathi lives and works in Cape Town.
