Khumoeng Madito was still a provincial hockey player when she saw the job she wanted. At an interprovincial tournament with Southern Free State, she watched someone interview a player and the idea took hold.
“I was watching a person interview another player, and I realised that was something I wanted to do.”
Football Presenter and Broadcaster, Khumoeng Madito
The route was less clear. Madito is from Bloemfontein, played hockey for 12 years and had no idea how a schoolgirl from the Free State became the person holding the microphone. “You know, I was really fascinated when SuperSport Schools were always interviewing other players and I was like, wow, I would really love to do this,” she says.
Her first step came at St Michael’s School for Girls in 2021. Madito and three friends, Vimbai Chituku, Itumeleng Semoli and Kwame Moabi, felt the school’s social media presence had faded and decided to do something about it with their phones.
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“Let’s use media to our advantage,” she remembers them saying. They took the idea to the school. “We gave them a pitch and they were like, okay, let’s do it,” she says. The friends went on to make documentaries and promotional videos about school life, and Madito still calls the project “forever dear to my heart”.
Johannesburg changed the pace. In her first year at the University of Johannesburg in 2025, Madito was referred to Bluescore FC, which she describes as a media platform that showcases South African football. Her first assignment was to take photographs with a camera, something she had never properly done, and she learned as she went.
In January this year she worked as second assistant camera on a short film, After Hours. The set gave her a glimpse of the film world without turning her head. “I’ve always stuck to sports media,” she says.
Then, in March this year, came the move in front of the lens. “It was one of the toughest things I’ve ever done. I never thought I’d see myself in front of a camera,” she says of her first time presenting. She does not dress it up.
“As I went ahead with it, it wasn’t bad. It also wasn’t good, but I needed to start somewhere in order to get where I needed to be.”
Since then she has built a method. Madito prepares her questions before she goes on air and studies how established broadcasters work, among them Julia Stuart, Mbali Sigidi and Carol Tshabalala. “I think it’s very important as a presenter to have at least a few questions prepared in your head, but also look at how other interviewers, especially people in the sports media space interview,” she says.
Two of those names are part of gsport’s own story. Stuart was named Woman in TV at the 2021 gsport Awards, the year Sigidi won the Public Choice award. Madito watches them for ideas and not for a template. “I have my own interviewing style and I wouldn’t want to be anyone else but myself,” she says. “So I think it’s very important to be unique in what you do.”
The audience noticed. “I first noticed I had an audience at the UJ SRC Cup actually, because a lot of people were asking, Khumo, where were you? Where were you?” she says. “You have a lot of people who believe in you and believe in your craft and your work, and they see where you’re going. They’re just waiting for you to get there.”
Nqobile Kraai, a sports photographer who works alongside her at Bluescore FC, saw the same thing from the other side. “There were times when we posted without her being on the page but people came into the comments and they were asking for her,” he wrote to gsport. “She is a great host, presenter and broadcaster with a humble personality.”
What Madito most wants that audience to see is the women’s game. At UJ she works around players who also turn out for the national team, and around women’s football coach Nthabeleng “Dunga” Modiko, a former Banyana Banyana captain whom she credits with “always motivating the girls”.
“Women’s sports are not broadcasted specifically here. There’s not a lot of support that you have,” Madito says. A crowd at a women’s football match is its own motivation, she adds, because “you want to be in the space where you see someone like you”. Her conclusion is simple. “But women’s sports is utterly important in our society as well.”
This year has taken her well beyond campus. At the FARPost Cup in Soweto she was an on-the-ground presenter for the football channel Ballgame.
“That was a monumental moment for me.”
Her work at Varsity Football caught the eye of Olwethu Mbanjane, who called her to the Engen Champ of Champs in Pretoria.
“I took the Gautrain and I went as quick as I could just to go to Pretoria to be able to document their work and be on the ground and presenting,” she says. There she watched Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies up close. “You see, those girls can play really, really well.”
Varsity Football itself, she says, did the most for her. “It pioneered my name.” The tournament also brought a collaboration with SportPesa, a Varsity Football partner, and time alongside presenter Zomusa Thango. “I look up to her and in terms of her work as well, she’s helped me so much,” Madito says.
Madito is studying towards a BCom in Information Management at UJ, a degree she believes will help her adapt as sports media changes, and she leans on her parents, grandparents, family and friends to manage both. “I can work in media because of the degree I have,” she says.
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The ambition is the Premier League, and Stuart, who went from South African television to presenting it, is her proof that it can be done.
“I always watch her and I always say, wow, that will be me one day in sports broadcasting.”
Until then, she holds to what Kraai and her Bluescore FC colleague Katleho “Chris” Sathekge have taught her about patience. “So all you have to do is just work towards what you’re doing and it’s coming, it’s cooking.”
Main Photo Caption: Sports presenter Khumoeng Madito went from provincial hockey player in the Free State to on-camera work at the FARPost Cup, the Engen Champ of Champs and Varsity Football, and tells gsport why women’s football deserves more screen time, in an interview recorded on Wednesday, 11 November 2026. All Photos: Supplied
Photo 2 Caption: Madito started in media in 2021, when she and three school friends revived the Instagram page of St Michael’s School for Girls in Bloemfontein.
Photo 3 Caption: On the field first, behind the camera later, Madito joined Bluescore FC as a photographer in 2025 and began presenting university football in March this year.
Photo 4 Caption: Preparation matters to Madito, who readies her questions in advance and studies broadcasters Julia Stuart, Mbali Sigidi and Carol Tshabalala.
Photo 5 Caption: University of Johannesburg student Madito is studying towards a BCom in Information Management and wants to cover the Premier League one day.
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