Narrators
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Anthony Oseyemi
Anthony Oseyemi is a Nigerian actor, playwright and producer. He has a theatre and performing arts training background and has worked extensively in international film and television. He is based in Johannesburg
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Antony Coleman
Antony Coleman is a celebrated and award winning South African actor, with over thirty years of experience in the industry. He has numerous film, television, presenting, theatrical, corporate and voiceover projects under his belt. He has voiced many successful campaigns and has a passion for books and bringing literature to life.
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Anelisa Phewa
Anelisa trained at UCT, and has enjoyed a diverse career ranging from international series to Shakespeare, having played both Hamlet and a Netflix villain in 2021. He is a singer, guitar player, composer, and musical theatre artist. His most notable voice project has been the lead in SABC 3’s Urbo: The Adventures of Pax Africa.
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Carlos Amato
Carlos Amato was born in 1976 in Cape Town, and later reappeared in Johannesburg. He's an award-winning political cartoonist, but he also narrates, illustrates, writes and pontificates.
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Chris Djuma
Chris is a Swiss born, South African raised Congolese actor, writer, director and theatre maker. He trained at The Market Theatre Laboratory. He hopes that his curiosity for acting and storytelling leads him to further explore, reflect and interrogate humanity in all its shades while also bringing hope, light and joy to those who engage with him and his work.
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Daniel Janks
Daniel Janks was born in 1977 and is still not dead. Janks has appeared in many of South Africa’s most popular TV dailies and drama series, as well as numerous international television projects. Janks also works extensively in both the local and international film market.
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Dawid Minnaar
Dawid has worked extensively on stage, television, radio and film in South Africa. He toured internationally with three Handspring Puppet Company/William Kentridge productions and performed in A Lesson from Aloes under the direction of Janet Suzman at the Finborough Theater in London in 2019. He is currently a series regular in Legacy for Tshedza Productions and M -Net.
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Emmanuel Castis
Description goes hereEmmanuel has been telling stories, since the age of 6. He is an award winning actor, singer, dancer. Emmanuel has worked extensively in film and television, including Warrior, Isono, Trackers, Binnelanders, and Isidingo, He has toured the world with the musical Jersey Boys. He has also narrated documentary projects and voiced characters for radio dramas.
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Getmore Sithole
Getmore became a household name for his work on South African TV and has also performed in international movies including Le Lion, A Small Town Called Descent, and Blood and Oil. His most recent projects include the Netflix series Blood And Water now entering its 3rd season. Getmore recently voiced Siya Kolisi’s audio book “Against All Odds”.
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Gopala Davies
Gopala Davies is a South African actor and director best known for his role as Aarush in The Estate. Named one of the Top 5 South African Theatre Makers by SATMag, he is drawn to storytelling as a platform for collaboration, healing, reflection, and entertainment.
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Graham Hopkins
Graham Hopkins has been an actor and voice artist in South Africa for four decades. He has narrated several audiobooks for Chivers Audiobooks and the SABC, including Geoffrey Jenkins’ “A Cleft of Stars”, “A Year In Provence” and “Toujours Provence” by Peter Mayle, Tim Noakes’ “Challenging Beliefs”, “Achieving the impossible” by Lewis Pugh and “Thank you, Judge Mostert!”by Carmel Rickard.
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Jared Bartels
South African born and internationally raised, Jared Bartels is a Cape Town based voice artist and singer with several years of voice acting experience, ranging from deep authoritative tones for commercials to character voices for locally produced gaming companies. Jared’s rich tone and measured cadence combine to deliver narratives that draw the listener in.
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Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith is an award-winning actor, director, and presenter with a career that spans more than three decades. He is fluent in English as well as Afrikaans and is just as comfortable on stage as he is in front of the cameras or in front of a microphone.
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Kuhle Nkosi
Kuhle is an AFDA graduate (The South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Art) and received his degree in Directing, Producing and Writing in 2007. Since graduating he has built up various other experiences within the entertainment industry, working as a sport researcher for the SABC, the 2008 Olympic Games and the Confederation Cup in 2009. Kuhle has also worked as a casting director for television commercials.
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Litha Bam
Litha Bam is a South African actor, singer and voice artist. He trained in New York City at the Stella Adler Studio and New York Film Academy. TV includes Home Affairs, Intersexions, 7de Laan, Scandal, and Raised by Wolves (HBO Max) Theatre includes The Meeting at the Market Theatre and Mike Van Graan's Green Man Flashing at the Theatre on the Square.
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Loyiso MacDonald
Loyiso MacDonald is a South African actor and voice artist best known for his breakout role as Ntando Sibeko in the SABC3 soap opera Isidingo. Other TV includes Zabalaza, Those Who Can't, Intersexions, Gold Diggers, The Queen, Rockville, and Madiba. Theatre includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sasol Fever, Othello, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Man Up a Tree, Escape from Nombiland, and Dusk.
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Lwazi Mkhize
Lwazi Mkhize is a well-known voice artist who has voiced many household brands in South Africa. Over the past 15 years, he has done work for brands including Lexus South Africa, Shell UK, MiWay(South African Insurer), Hollywood bets and more.
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Michael Richard
Michael Richard is one of South Africa’s most prolific voice over artists, having recorded hundreds of radio and tv commercials as well as audio visuals, radio plays and audio books in a career spanning 47 years.
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Mortimer Williams
Mortimer Williams is a renowned South African actor, singer, comedian and voice artist, famous for both his stage and screen credits. Mortimer is an experienced and skilled voice artist with more than 20 years under his belt. He can pull off various genres, from corporate to comedic.
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Murray Todd
Murray has been an actor and voice artist for over 25 years in a wealth of genres, from musical theatre and theatre, to international television and features. Murrays voice clients span the globe, from L.A. to London, as far south as New Zealand. He loves nothing better than burying himself in a good book or his home studio, so audiobooks are a win win.
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Nhlakanipho Lindokuhle Manqele
Nhlakanipho Lindokuhle Manqele, 34, is a Freelance Artist in Acting, Dance, Radio Drama, MC’ing, Rapping, Poetry, Beat-boxing, Directing, Creative Writing, Puppetry and Voice Overs. He has 13 Years Experience in the entertainment industry. His classical choral choir training and theatre career has given him a wide vocal range. From commercials to animation to live events, you name it and he’ll voice it.
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Patrick Tumureebire
South-African born, Ugandan by descent and born again in Jo’burg (pun-intended). Master of crowds and engineering, frequenting ramps and shoots. Business Analyst by day, set-life through the night. Charismatic personality paired with a millennial baritone voice. Dedicated to inspiring the next generation towards leading a purpose-filled life.
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Peter Noble
A multi-award-winning audiobook narrator, Peter Noble has recorded hundreds of audiobooks and audio dramas — including the 2021 Booker Prize winner, Damon Galgut’s The Promise.
Peter was born in South Africa, but grew up travelling, picking up a range of authentic dialects and languages along the way.
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Peter Terry
Peter Terry has worked in the entertainment industry for 50 years, especially in the theatre, and on television he has appeared in a wide range of local and international productions. Peter has also worked extensively as a voice artist during the past 30+ years and was a presenter on Classic 1027.
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Rajesh Gopie
Rajesh Gopie is an award-winning theatre maker and drama/acting teacher. His plays have toured internationally, and he is also the recipient of the Oppenheimer and Guildford Scholarships that enabled him to attain a master’s degree in Actor Training and coaching at the Royal Central school of Speech and Drama in London.
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Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor, producer and voice artist currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has over 25 years of experience working in the industry. His extensive range includes voicing animated films, documentaries, commercials and corporates. Languages include English (various accents) and Afrikaans.
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Tailyn Ramsamy
Tailyn Ramsamy completed his BA (Honours) in Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town. He is an actor, voice-over artist and director with 13 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He hopes to leave a mark in the industry by constantly challenging the structures created in the past and being created now, in order to produce relevant, innovative art.