Mpho Maeko (29)

Mpho Maeko (29)

Twenty-nine-year-old social worker Mpho Maeko is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Bereavement Care and Maeko Social Work Services. He holds an honours degress in social work from the University of Limpopo and has extensive experience in bereavement, trauma and...
Arnold Maudi (24)

Arnold Maudi (24)

Twenty-four-year-old high school science teacher and sports coach Arnold Maudi is involved in ensuring township schools integrate sports as a culture in the township of Mamelodi, northeast of Pretoria. He is currently serving as chairperson of the Mamelodi High school...
Ongeziwe Zondani (31)

Ongeziwe Zondani (31)

Ongeziwe Zondani is a live television content producer with Supersport, a job she’s dreamed of landing since childhood. “I’m a daddy’s girl — he loves sport, so it has always been a huge part of my life. Growing up in Qhuggwarhu village in the Eastern Cape, our...
Abulele Adams (31)

Abulele Adams (31)

Thirty-one-year-old Abulele Adams is an environmental assessment practitioner at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with a string of qualifications under her belt. She has an MSc in geography from Nelson Mandela University, has completed a year...
Bafana Nhlapo (30)

Bafana Nhlapo (30)

Thirty-year-old activist and politician Bafana Nhlapo, who today is a senior human resources business partner at Absa, was raised by a single mother in a poor family in the township of Orange Farm. “I have personal experience of the effects of poverty and its...