‘I've never not had a job' - Pabi Moloi flexes work ethic ahead of new show
Though Pabi Moloi keeps the door to her private life shut, she's relentlessly shown up for her career.
From being a child star on KTV to being a multifaceted media personality, there is nothing she hasn't done.
Pabi has appeared in commercials, MC'd on international stages, sparked engaging conversations on our airwaves, and dominated our screens for over three decades.
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Recently, she also ventured into a podcast with her comedian brother, Khabane Moloi, titled 'It's a brother and a sister', marking a whole new leaf in her career.
She tells Drum of how fortunate she's been over the years.
'I'm very fortunate. I've never not had a job. I've been on television concurrently with radio, pretty much my entire career. It has taken the last two or three years for me to realise, 'Oh, I think I want to build something for myself.' My brother's also creative, so we work together seamlessly to build what we want, in whatever way. And I'm also 41 [years old]. You get to an age where you don't want to say other people's words [anymore].'
The success of the podcast has, however, coincided with the developing news in her private life, particularly her divorce.
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Given how stressful divorces can get, her supporters have expressed concerns about her subsequent drastic weight loss on TikTok, with some wishing her well.
Addressing those taken aback by her fitness journey through the ordeal, she says, 'I've been gyming since I was like 26. I started gymming on Instagram. If you go onto my Instagram and go far back, I've got gym videos. So people being shocked by my gym videos now shocks me also. I've been lifting these weights'.
Despite all the chatter around her divorce and weight loss, it has become evident that you can't keep a good woman down.
Stepping into a whole new door of opportunity, Pabi hosts the 11th season of a reality TV series premiering on S3 (previously SABC 3) on Thursday, 17 July at 7pm - The Insurance Apprentice (TIA).
The series follows a week-long journey of contestants from the insurance industry who are given tasks that harness skills, attract more people to the industry, and educate the world about insurance beyond the call centre walls and funeral policies as they debunk the prevalent narrative that, 'All insurance companies do is collect money and evade payouts by all means necessary'.
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As it makes its debut on S3 after ten seasons of airing on YouTube, Pabi elates over the show.
'It's thrilling. It moves fast. It's also, you know, you find your favourite contestant and then you follow your favourite contestant and you find out how far they go. So all of it is very exciting. It's been produced so incredibly, and I think that you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not watching.'
'It's very exciting. I think that there is so much to be known and understood behind the scenes in the insurance industry, that many of us have no idea about. And so bringing this to the fore, making it on a public profile, on a public platform, allows us to see just how hard these guys work and how challenging all of these tasks that they're put to to make sure that we also understand what's happening behind the scenes,' she adds.
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