by Dev Ops | Jun 27, 2019 | Film & Media 2019
Melody Xaba was raised in Orlando West during the transition to democracy. The politically charged environment was, to a large extent, all Xaba knew about being Black. Then in 1994 CCV-TV (now SABC 1) launched Jam Alley, showing happy, talented, and intelligent...
by Dev Ops | Jun 26, 2019 | Business & Entrepreneurship 2019
‘We’re disrupting the market in every way we can,” says Phakamile Hlazo of her role as a tech-enabled entrepreneur in the tourism industry. Through her company Zulu Nomad she seeks to inspire and inform others about the opportunities for travel in Africa and beyond....
by Dev Ops | Jun 26, 2019 | Business & Entrepreneurship 2019
While there are concerns that South Africa is falling behind technologically and is not prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Melao Mashale prefers to see the issue from a “glass half-full” perspective. Having spent his entire career in the business...
by Dev Ops | Jun 26, 2019 | Arts & Entertainment 2019
Professor Pumla Gqola calls her “brilliant” and Marianne Thamm says she’s “the best thing to happen to SA comedy”. Lesego Tlhabi has elicited such praise through her wide-ranging work. Gaining prominence through her political satirist creation, Coconut Kelz, the...
by Dev Ops | Jun 26, 2019 | Business & Entrepreneurship 2019
Moeletsi Mirage Taiwe left the bright lights of Johannesburg, shortly after completing her BA at the University of Johannesburg and returned home to Dennilton, Limpopo, where her father is a small-scale farmer. “Once I finished my degree in 2016 and came home … I...
