Nyanga Tshabalala

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 Children's Television Workshop, creator of "Sesame Street" to studied multi-media educational programming for preschoolers in hopes to adapted "Sesame Street" for South Africa. He worked 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, Setswana.