Sami Sabiti

Sami Sabiti

Sami Sabiti was born in Uganda, East Africa, and he lived in Egypt, Kenya and the United Kingdom before finally settling in South Africa. A self-confessed nomad, he studied Economics and Management, graduated, and then discovered his love of television, radio, and the media. Sami's diverse career began as a presenter on South Africa's first 24-hour music channel, Music Television. Later, he read and produced their news and music programming. Sami has also presented an adventure travel show titled African Adventures, as well as Idols in South Africa, a talent search that took the world by storm. He says: "I woke up one day and realized that this was my life. I always thought I'd follow the straight and narrow path of commerce but that got boring real quick." Sami spent two years working at IBM's head office in Johannesburg. Sami has an adventurous personality and has ridden camels across deserts, trekked ice fields, parachuted, driven dirt bikes across the African bush, and dived with manta rays and great white sharks. He is currently working on his first screenplay.