Zizipho Ntobongwana, 26

Zizipho Ntobongwana, 26

The average person who menstruates will spend between R15 000 and R25 000 on sanitary products in their lifetime. And more often than not, those products are harmful effects to a person’s health and the environment. Zizipho Ntobongwana, who has a Bachelor of Social...
Palesa Moloi, 27

Palesa Moloi, 27

As the chief executive and co-founder of ParkUpp, Palesa Moloi has achieved what many of us have dreamed of — a solution for parking chaos. The service concept is simple — connecting drivers to unused parking spaces in private lots, empty driveways or big corporate...
Mutinta Bbenkele Simelane, 27

Mutinta Bbenkele Simelane, 27

Mutinta Simelane knows what it’s like to share a stage with greatness. After all, she performed poetry at the Global Citizen Festival in 2018 — an event where some of the most recognisable faces of the entertainment industry arrived on our shores. Symbolically, this...
Phumlani Pikoli, 32

Phumlani Pikoli, 32

Writer Phumlani Pikoli has ambitions that go beyond being the author of a couple of popular books. He’s shaping himself as a multi-disciplinary artist by working with theatre makers too. Right now he’s best known for his book of short stories, The Fatuous State of...
Ami Faku, 27

Ami Faku, 27

Rising star Ami Faku has a rich, soulful voice that beguilingly draws you in, even if you don’t understand the words. Faku comes from Port Elizabeth and often sings in isiXhosa, but loves to explain the stories behind her music. For her song Inde Lendlela (I’ve come a...