Nomhle Ngwenya, 23

Nomhle Ngwenya, 23

Nomhle Ngwenya, a PhD candidate at the University of Witwatersrand, already knows how she wants to change the world. Since the start of Covid-19, she’s become interested in the negative economic effect of the pandemic on African countries. Since the start of Covid-19,...
Ahren Posthumus, 24

Ahren Posthumus, 24

At just 24, Ahren Posthumus is the co-founder of two tech platforms changing millions of lives. Posthumus co-founded Jobmatcher, an app that matches jobseekers with ad-hoc work. His Lockdown Bozza app, which breaks down what you can and can’t do during the lockdown by...
Ndlovu Youth Choir

Ndlovu Youth Choir

The Ndlovu Youth Choir delighted and united millions of South Africans and made the country proud when they did so well on the TV show America’s Got Talent. They’d already won countless fans with their isiZulu version of Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, accompanied by...
Petri Redelinghuys, 35

Petri Redelinghuys, 35

Seeing things work motivates Petri Redelinghuys, founder of the local business platform Say Siyabonga. It was created to save local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic by buying and selling vouchers for goods and services from them. Say Siyabonga is morphing into...
Vukosi Marivate, 34

Vukosi Marivate, 34

Covid-19 facts and figures have become a global preoccupation as the virus turns lives upside down. Finding reliable local statistics was difficult, so Dr Vukosi Marivate created a detailed database collating Covid-19 data and analysing it in dozens of useful ways....