BREAKING. Pregnant celebrity chef and new Food Network star Siba Mtongana gives birth to a healthy baby boy in Cape Town.

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I can break the news that the pregnant Siba Mtongana has just given birth and has become the proud mom of a baby boy earlier today.

Sibahle Mtongana - better known as Siba - recently signed on as the latest South African celebrity chef to get her own cooking show on the Food Network (DStv 185) which the new mom will serious get involved in from now.

She, as well as the Food Network was waiting for the birth to happen, then a period of maternity leave, after which South African viewers will get to see the new, as-yet-untitled show in 2013.

Siba was previously on South African television in Cooking with Siba on M-Net's Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) channel. Next year her new Food Network show will be seen in 85 countries throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Siba's little baby boy is in good health, and I'm told there was no complications when Siba gave birth today in the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. "Both mother and son are doing very well," I'm told.

BREAKING. Pregnant Siba to keep cooking - now for the Food Network as young chef becomes 2nd South African to get her own show.

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The pregnant chef Siba Mtongana will keep cooking - the young black food editor has become the second local South African chef to get her own as-yet-untitled locally commissioned cooking show on the Food Network (DStv 185).

Sibahle Mtongana who will become a mother soon was the star of Cooking with Siba on M-Net's Mzansi Magic (DStv 107) channel, and has now signed with the Food Network for a new cooking show which will be seen in 85 countries throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Her show follows on the heels of Jenny Morris, the first South African chef to sign with the Food Network whose Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco is currently on the channel on Mondays at 20:10.

"Food Network is always on the look out for fresh new talent in South Africa and Siba certainly fits the bill," says Nick Thorogood, the senior vice president of content and marketing who said the channel is delighted to have Siba Mtongana on board. "She's dynamic, passionate about food and audiences love her - everything that's important to the Food Network brand."

The channel will be conceptualising with Siba Mtongana over the course of the next few months says the Food Network to create her show, saying it wants to "deliver a fun and entertaining series on the Food Network that will inspire and delight foodies and non-foodies alike."

Filming of Siba Mtongana's new cooking show will start in early 2013 after she has given birth.