Nyanga Tshabalala is an internationally accomplished puppeteer, puppet trainer, writer and director. He performs Zikwe on Takalani Sesame, South Africa's Sesame Street co-production. He was also one of six South Africans who spent six-month affiliations with Sesame Workshop to studied multi-media educational programming and trained with Jim Henson Productions in New York on Muppet making and costume design.

He is fluent in English, IsiZulu, Sesotho, IsiXhosa, Siswazi, Afrikaans, and Setswana.

External LinksEdit

• Profile at Institute of International Education
• The Kwanda Creative Team