Nosipho Dumisa (31)

Nosipho Dumisa (31)

Anybody who frequents arthouse cinemas will remember Nommer 37, a tense, gritty gangster movie set in Cape Town. It was the work of Nosipho Dumisa, a screenwriter, director and producer and the co-founder of Gambit Films. Nommer 37 won her numerous awards...
Ayanda-Allie Payne (32)

Ayanda-Allie Payne (32)

An accomplished media professional with a wealth of experience across various platforms, 32-year old Ayanda-Allie Paine is a familiar face to many. But media wasn’t always what she imagined herself doing. Growing up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Paine toyed with the idea of...
Femme Projects

Femme Projects

Femme Projects is a Black, queer and womxn owned organisation, co-directed and founded by Kim Windvogel (28), Loren Loubser (28) and Kelly Eve Koopman (29), that uses interactive methods of running comprehensive sexual education, sexual reproductive health and rights,...
Tolika Sibiya (33)

Tolika Sibiya (33)

Thirty-three-year-old Tolika Sibiya has held the position of technical and vocational education and training researcher at the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. He has also worked...
Dr Sharief Hendricks (33)

Dr Sharief Hendricks (33)

The mother of 33-year-old academic Dr Sharief Hendricks was a street vendor who silently motivated him to know that hard work pays off. Raising him in the Mitchell’s Plain suburb of Lentegeur in the Western Cape, she instilled a work ethic in him that committed him...