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Brandon Baatjies
Brandon's passion for sport started at a young age playing everything that he found interesting from tennis and table tennis to cricket and even baseball. Many of his friends took the step up to higher honours on a provincial and national stage and he went on to working behind the scenes, first in rugby and then onto media. Brandon worked for the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Fund, working very closely with SA Rugby on injury prevention making sure the game of rugby is safer for all to play and it was during this time that he developed a taste for media. Brandon has been in radio broadcasting as a sports anchor for the past seven years and has been the presenter of the Ajax Action soccer feature for the same period of time. His wide knowledge of different sporting codes has also seen him host a rugby feature on radio with WP Rugby and he also started the club cricket feature looking at the teams competing in the Western Cape.
Brandon's progress and experience in radio ultimately led to opportunities in TV with a 24 hour news channel as a sports reporter and anchor. He not only gives viewers a round-up of the days sporting highlights but also goes out to where the action is to gives viewers a live account of what the atmosphere is like at various sports events. He was also appointed as the official 2010 emcee/announcer for Cape Town Stadium by the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 World Cup. Brandon is currently anchoring sport on the breakfast show on Goodhope FM and also reports and anchor's sport on South Africa's only 24 hour TV news channel. He is also furthering his studies and is currently busy with a FIFA accredited sports management qualification on a part-time basis.
Brandon has emceed many different sporting events from live games to golf days and corporate hospitality and below are just a few of his most recent events.
- Official match emcee for Ajax Cape Town matches
- MTN/Ajax CT Golf day
- Rugby Tri Nations hospitality ( Q&A sessions with players and rugby legends in CT,JHB and Dbn)
- WP Club Cricket end of year awards
- Ajax Cape Town awards evening various other radio station commitments
- 2010 FIFA World Cup
