The AfricaCom Awards team is delighted to announce that 2012’s event
will be hosted by top South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz!
Nik currently presents
"The Week that Wasn't" on Talk Radio 702 and Cape Talk, playing a
legion of characters for SA's most popular online satirical production
- ZA News.
Nik was raised on the mean, green streets of Constantia, Cape Town, a
world of ride-bys (on horseback), piano lessons, and unrelenting love and
financial support from family members. He grew up on a farm, climbing trees and
commentating on his own rugby games in at least three of South Africa’s eleven official
languages.
After somehow graduating
from UCT with a Business Degree and a large afro, he took off with a band of
traveling actors and a herd of donkeys before discovering stand-up comedy one
spring afternoon in 2001. Ten years later, he was nominated (by his peers)
as one of the top 4 stand-up comedians in South Africa at the SA Comics Choice
Awards.
In 2010 he starred in Bafunny
Bafunny, touring SA and the UK (where they sold out The Royal Albert Hall). He
subsequently appeared on the UK's most popular comedy show, BBC 2's Mock the
Week. Nik has also produced and performed six one man shows including the
latest sell-out, You Can't Be Serious.
With Nik’s presence at the AfricaCom Awards 2012, it’s set to be an
even more star-studded evening!
