Given Stuurman is a 28-year-old South African actor and presenter best known for playing Kgosi Legae on the television soap opera Scandal. He began acting at the tender age of 7 in 2003, when he featured in a Post Bank Lobola commercial. After that, he appeared on several television shows as a presenter and on South African serials such as Black Tax, Igazi, Jiva, and Kota Life Crisis, just to name a few.
He started acting at the very young age of seven when he starred in a Post Bank Lobola commercial. In the commercial, a 7-year-old asks his father to pay Lobola for a girl he had fallen in love with, and this made some early serious career highlights for Stuurman.
“My beautiful Xhosa mother gave birth to me at Johannesburg General Hospital on the 16th of January 1995. I was raised by a strict single mom but very loving as well. Her “tough love”, which I am highly grateful for, has resulted in me realising the true essence of life, love, discipline and honesty. Honesty because it plays a massive part in knowing yourself and being yourself,” said Stuurman.Stuurman attended Sandringham High School, then went on to attend King Edward VII School, where he finished his studies in 2013. In 2014, he enrolled at the Academy of Sound Engineering, where he graduated with a degree in sound engineering and audio technology. Commenting on education, Stuurman said education is important for the advancement of human civilization, and he truly believes in it.“I believe in education because it is the means by which a person is prepared to build their own civilisation, as well as to develop and glorify their own race. This is a philosophy that I believe should be instilled in every young person around the world, particularly Black children, because we are the ones who appear to be lacking in this crucial piece of instruction,”
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