Zaa Nkweta is a Canadian actor, journalist and television presenter. Nkweta has a BA from McGill University and a postgraduate journalism diploma from Rhodes University. He is a graduate of Ashbury College in Rockliffe Park, Ottawa and attended The National Theatre School of Canada, training under Pierre Lefevre and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. He has acted in numerous feature films and television shows. His big budget credits include Ali and Beyond Borders.
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Nkweta hosted the first South African literary television program Between the Lines in 1999. He has conducted communications workshops with The South African Department of Trade and Industry, BHP Billiton and Interbrand Services. Stories that Nkweta has presented that have won awards include "Crude" which won an SAB Environmental Awardof Merit in 2001, and "Animals and The Law" which won an International Genesis Media Award in 2005.
In 2001 he became the anchorman and field reporter for South Africa's highly acclaimed investigative tv program Carte Blanche (TV series). Nkweta also anchored the pan-African version of the show broadcast to 44 African countries and the United States. Highlights at Carte Blanche (TV series) include stories covering the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, Medical Fraud in Johannesburg, Oil sabotage in Nigeria, Oil corruption in Equatorial Guinea, and The Taiping Four Gorillas of Cameroon. Nkweta has interviewed The President of Equatorial Guinea, The Chairman of De Beers Mines, Nicky Oppenheimer, and The Secretary General of the African Union (2001–2002) Amara Essy. He has an interest in the arts, having interviewed several notable actors such as Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron and Will Smith.
Nkweta was a producer and anchorman for The Real News in Toronto Canada from 2007-2009. Stories on South African politics, the political crises in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Gaza, Pakistan and Iraq are some of the highlights of his body of work. Nkweta was recently appointed as a part time lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford Campus in the Fall of 2011. His courses include "Journalism, the Internet and Emerging Media" and "Researching for The News."