1000 African Voices

This episode features Zola Nene, who is best known as the resident Chef on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, that country's national broadcaster, breakfast show Expresso. She found her calling while at varsity and has never looked back. Having worked in England, she returned to South Africa, expanded her talents and used her skills to make a career being a media chef. She enrolled at the Institute of Culinary Arts in Stellenbosch. During her studies she worked with well known chefs. After graduating, she moved to Johannesburg and worked in a large catering company as a Catering Manager. She was then offered a job on Expresso when the producers were looking for a food stylist. In February 2016 she released a cookbook called Simply Delicious. In 2017, Zola joined the BBC Lifestyle reality competition series, The Great South African Bakeoff for its third season as a judge. Twitter - https://twitter.com/zola_nene Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zolanenechef/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.c