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...
Yoshlyn Naidoo (32)

Yoshlyn Naidoo (32)

A number of education specialists have said that because South African school children’s basic literacy and numeracy skills are so low, it is a pointless exercise to teach 21st-century skills such as computer programming and robotics. However, thirty-two-year old...