Liezel Van Der Westhuizen - MC, Presenter - Cape
Town
In 2010, Liezel was asked to present SABC 3’s new
breakfast show Expresso, live weekday mornings from
5:30-7:30. This show saw her move to Cape Town,
where she currently lives and is also currently a
presenter on 94.5KFM.
Liezel Van Der Westhuizen
She may be have been a new face for Season 5 of MNET
Idols and only the second woman in the world to
present Idols, but Liezel van der Westhuizen has
only been working in the home-grown entertainment
industry for 2years, starting out on TV as an SABC 3
continuity presenter as well as the presenter of
SABC 3’s live lunchtime talk show – Lunchbox.
Liezel Van Der Westhuizen
Liezel is also a presenter on Jacaranda 94.2. It was on the latter
station that Liezel’s ability to reach audiences,
with her finely tuned, warm and hugely likeable
presenting skills, earned her a strong following
amongst the province’s radio listeners. “I began my
radio life at Tuks FM and was well and truly hooked
on the joys of being able to use media to connect
with people,” she says.
Liezel Van Der Westhuizen
It’s no surprise that Liezel is so at ease when
talking to an audience: this Pretoria raised-girl
has a Masters Degree in Communication Management
from the University of Pretoria and, since 2000, has
been a member of Toastmasters International, having
received her Advanced Toastmaster Bronze certificate
in 2005.
Liezel Van Der Westhuizen
“I’ve always loved speaking in public and conveying
my point of view to a broad audience,” Liezel says
of her Toastmaster experience. In fact so committed
is she to the benefits of this form of communication
that last year she taught public speaking and
communication at Abraham Kriel Childrens Home as a
volunteer. “I’m passionate about young South
Africans being able to stand up and speak,
confidently and with knowledge, about the issues
that move them,” Liezel says simply. And in addition
to her Toastmasters experience, Liezel is a
recognised voiceover artist, having done an array of
television and radio voiceover work.
That Liezel is so focused on her own passions is
entirely consistent with her personality: after all,
this is a woman who, as a learner at Pretoria Girls
never once missed a day of school, in her entire 12
years spent in the education system!
In fact, Liezel is no slouch when it comes to the
other pursuits that she can’t live without: sport
and health. “I train five days a week and follow a
very healthy lifestyle. And I’m crazy about golf!”
That - and swimming, running, cycling, spinning and
scuba-diving! It’s a head-spinning array of physical
passions that, when combined with Liezel’s
model-looks make it easy to see why she was a Top 8
finalist in the 2007 Shape magazine Sanex Cover Girl
competition.
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Liezel Van Der Westhuizen - MC, Presenter -
Cape Town
