Driving To Pretoria Nik Rabinowitz

My guest on our season 1 finalé is Ladysmith’s finest export since André Joubert, Salted Butter, and Black Mambazo.

He is a two time Fleur du Cap theatre award winning actor, dancer, singer, guitarist, drummer, beatboxer, music producer, impressionist, stand up comic, TV star, voice over artist, and writer. Before that he was an award-winning personal trainer, puppeteer, youth pastor, church organ player and child chess prodigy.

Please enjoy this conversation with my dear friend, the exponentially talented Seneliso “Sne” Dladla.

(Catch Sne’s incredible voice note inspired album VNLN Pt1. on Apple Music or Spotify by searching for “S.N.E”)

After being comedic ships in the Cape Town night for two decades, I finally sat down with someone I started out with at The Armchair Theatre in 2001.

Aside from being hilarious, excellent at baking, and a single mother to three dogs, two cats and one human, it is suspected (by me) that my guest on this episode is also descended from Welsh royalty. 

Please enjoy this conversation with chocolate eclair influencer, gaming queen, and self-confessed favourite of her mom’s three kids, comedian Mel Jones.

Acclaimed comedian, radio presenter, plant communicator, under-cover oil painter and daughter of the “People of the Light” Angel Campey and Nik discuss many things, culminating in the attempted scattering of her father’s ashes in the Indian Ocean.

My guest on episode seven is one of the OGs of the South African stand-up comedy scene. A former courier, counterfeiter, and classic car collector, he is also the founder of one of the top ten rated comedy clubs in the world. Please enjoy one of my favourite episodes of season one with comedian, actor, and german wrangler, the lovable Kurt Schoonraad.

My guest on episode six of Driving to Pretoria is an award-winning journalist, author, satirist, columnist, and recovering Roman Catholic / stand up comedian. Many credit her with helping save South Africa from the jowls of the Guptas. I credit her with being one of the smartest, bravest, funniest people I know. Please enjoy this rambling discussion with the brilliant, razor-sharp witted, and thoroughly ungovernable Marianne Thamm.

This week on the podcast I take a metaphorical drive to Pretoria with one of South Africa’s most gifted, respected and prolific comedians / actors / comic actors / qualified high school teachers. 

According to a pre-pandemic Wikipedia entry, he’s performed “on stage, television, radio and the Internet” - proof that the man is simply way ahead of his time.

We don’t get into his relationship status on this episode, but according to www.datingcelebs.com, “we are currently in process of looking up information on his previous dates and hookups.” The same website also notes that “his birth name is Alan Committie” but that “she is currently 47 years old”. Also something we will have to revisit in part two. 

Please enjoy this conversation with one time captain of the Westerford High School 2nd XI cricket team, the South African Truck Drivers Association comedian of the year (1999), Tokai’s Basil Faulty, Bergvliet’s Mr Bean, the brilliant Alan Committie.