Intro to Dr. Felicia Suttle

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About Felicia

Dr. Felicia Mabuza-Suttle is an international award-winning entrepreneur, highly acclaimed talk show host, sought after public speaker, author and role model.

Dr. Suttle has been appointed President, South African Tourism USA, where she will be overseeing tourism for South Africa in America. "It is an honor to be able to share the spirit of humanity and freedom epitomised in Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa with the Americans." she says.

Americans and everyone all over the world, she believes need to visit South Africa to experience a unique awesome sensory impact of real wonder, fusion of cultures and music they will never find anywhere in the world. In the words of music maestro Sir Elton John, "The best place I have ever visited."

Her mission is to change misperceptions about South Africa in the international media; to encourage investors to do business in South Africa; and, to invite tourists to visit her beautiful country of birth.

In a recent South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) survey, she was named among the "100 Great South Africans." Felicia was also mentioned as one of the country's top ten most popular personalities by the Sunday Times newspaper in a recent survey on South African brands.

She is also mentioned in numerous surveys among the country's most admired role models with luminaries like Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Thabo Mbeki and others.

Television

Felicia, as she is popularly called, is a renowned talk show host. She was the first to start the studio audience talk show concept in South Africa in 1992. Her talk show, The Felicia Show, was started with the aim of bringing black and white South Africans together to talk with each other after years of apartheid that kept them separate. Her new show, Conversations with Felicia, is about sampling positive role models and to change misperceptions about Africa.

She is an award-winning business woman and founding member and investor in Pamodzi Investment Holdings (Pty.) Ltd.

Education

Her dream, she says, as a girl growing up in the dusty streets of Soweto who was deprived of a good education by the apartheid government of the time, "was to have alphabets behind my name." Today, she holds a:

• BA degree in Journalism from Marquette University
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• MA degree in Communications from Marquette University
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• Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Berkley
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She has lectured at the university level in the areas of broadcast communication, journalism, public speaking, and business communications. A sought after public speaker who conducts seminars in the business and academic sectors.

Awards, Achievements and Recognitions

Her favorite mantra is by Mahatma Gandhi: "We must be the change we want to see in the world."