Former news presenter Janet Mbugua, who worked for Royal Media Services-owned Citizen Television, has spoken about the discrimination she faced while working in the South African media scene.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on the 'Upclose' program hosted by Betty Kyalo, Janet Mbugua revealed that she was subjected to discrimination that manifested itself in various forms, ageism, sexism, xenophobia and racism.
She said that she was headhunted by a South African television station and had to move to Johannesburg in 2009 where she worked for 2 years.
"I had just come from South Africa where I had faced xenophobia, sexism, racism, ageism like it was pretty tough, " she said. (10:53-11:00)
Having seen it all in South Africa, she came back to Kenya in 2011 and was given another job as a presenter for Citizen Television to read prime time news alongside Hussein Mohamed.
Her account of her harrowing experience in South Africa might sound familiar for scores of Kenyans.
News of South Africans attacking African from other countries in shocking outbursts of xenophobia has been widely reported.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to apologise to African countries whose citizens were targeted in the outbreak of xenophobic mayhem.
The attacks were reportedly inspired by the economic hardship that many South Africans are grappling with.