Carol Tshabalala (formerely Manana)

Award winning South African sport television presenter, MC, radio presenter, ring announcer (boxing) scriptwriter and voice artist, Carol Tshabalala is currently an Anchor for Supersports' various programmes in football, boxing and Rugby and is a regular feature on their channels. She also presents her own show- "Love PSL" which focuses on the lifestyle of football aired every Tuesday on SS4 and Supersport HD at 18H30.

Carol began broadcasting in 2000 for the youth sports programme "Sportsbuzz". Within a year she was a field reporter for the soccer show "Soccer Special" and soon earned the prestigious accolade of being the first female sports anchor of major TV show, "Mabaleng", previously hosted by Robert Marawa and Martin Locke. She also hosted the 2003 and 2008 "Miss South Africa and Miss South Africa teen" pageants.

In 2011 she had the esteemed honour of hosting the biggest soccer accolade in the world- The FIFA Ballon D'or in Zurich with CNN anchor- Pedro Pinto. In 2012 she was a guest of honour in Zurich.

She has been involved in such prestigious productions as The 2010 world cup preliminary draw (broadcast live across the world) 46664 Nelson Mandela concert, All Africa Games, Blue I.Q, Comrades and City to City marathons, the Durban July Handicap and the world Karate cup and has covered 2 Olympics and Paralympic Games, the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the FIFA world cup in Germany 2006 and the 2010 FIFA world cup

As a radio journalist, Carol moved from Kaya fm, where she compiled and presented daily sports bulletins for the breakfast show to Radio 2000 where she now anchors "Beyond the Game" daily from 15h00-18h00, the first dedicated drive time sports show in SA.

Carol is also a seasoned ring announcer and her passion for the sport of boxing and professionalism has seen her ring announce many top class bouts and world title fights.

As an MC, she has hosted, amongst others, the following events:

* 2010 FIFA Ballon D'or Gala
* 2011 SA Sport Awards
* 2011 FIFA football symposium (Frankfurt, Germany)
* The 2010 FIFA world cup preliminary and final draws
* FIFA congress 2010
* Launch of Football for hope centres in Khayelitsha and Alexandra
* The Presidential sports awards
* 2009 FIFA Confederations cup draw
* Annual Premier soccer league awards
* Annual Boxing awards (every year since 2003)
* SABC 2 New years eve concert
* Launch of the African cup of nations
* 2010 World cup bid book handover
* The launch of SABC Sport
* The launch of the ABSA cup
* Miss SA pageant (2003 & 2008)
* United school sports association of South Africa Awards
* Launch of new Nike headquarters
* Blue I.Q Nelson Mandela marathon
* The Kaizer Chiefs end of season awards

Accolades: These include:
- Best television newcomer
- SAB Sports journalist of the year awards 2001
- Best Sports personality
- Selimathunzi, Duku Duku awards 2002
- SABC Woman of the year nominee
- Elle/ Sunday Times style awards finalist
- Cosmopolitan most extraordinary women - finalist 
- Merit award
- Best Television Presenter for the 2003/2004 PSL soccer season
- Best Radio journalist

- SAB sports journalists awards 2009
- Best sports presenter-Television
- SAFA(South African football association) awards 2010
- 1 of the Top 10 women in radio in SA
- MTN Yello Rose award, 2011