Onkgopotse JJ Tabane is a South African communications strategist, political commentator, businessman, and television presenter.

Tabane rose to prominence as a government spokesperson, including for South African Airways[1] and the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.

[9]Press reports in early 2011 suggested that Tabane was among a group of Shilowa supporters who were in talks about returning to the ANC,[10] and he was "welcomed back" into his former party in April.

[13] Tabane hosted Frankly Speaking on Sundays on SABC3 until September 2018, when the programme was cancelled and replaced by Redi Tlhabi's current-affairs show.

[19] In November 2020, he left Newzroom Africa for eNCA, where he launched a new current-affairs show, Power to Truth, to air twice weekly at 8 p.m.[20][21] Tabane is also known for his political commentary and wrote a column at the Business Day and, more recently, at the Daily Maverick.

In 2015, Pan MacMillan published an edited volume of his columns as Let's Talk Frankly: Letters to Influential South Africans About the State of Our Nation.