Sbu Mpungose Biography – Profile, Age

Sbu Mpungose is a South African editor. Born in 1982, She grew up in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal and studied Journalism at Tshwane University of Technology (2000 – 2003). She didn’t plan to become a magazine journalist but says it was a natural second choice because of her fascination with the industry.

Having being trained as a sub-editor by the Independent Group in 2005, she says, “changed her life” . In 2006, in her first year as editor of Move! and just 24 years old, Mpungose received the Editor of the Year Award.

After her appointment as editor of Bona in 2009, Sbu received the Vodacom Rising Star Award, which applauds the efforts of a woman under the age of 30 who is already making an impact on the media industry