by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Justice & Law 2018
Lauren Kohn Goldschmidt is an admitted attorney, a business owner, a creative thinker and mother of two. She founded a legal advice website and is an expert legal consultant, a PhD candidate at Leiden University and a senior lecturer in public law at UCT. Her...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Science & Technology 2018
What do you get when you cross biotechnology with computer science? Charles Faul, a young entrepreneur, the founder of Akili Labs and NOOTRO and a master’s student at the Biotechnology Innovation Centre at Rhodes University. He built the award-winning FieldLab — a...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Sports 2018
Limpopo-born Kgothatso Montjane is a wheelchair tennis player currently ranked number eight in the world in the women’s division. Born with a congenital deformity of one leg and hands, Montjane’s other foot was amputated when she was just 12 years old. Despite her...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Science & Technology 2018
Khanyisile Kgoadi wanted to be a medical doctor who finds a cure for HIV because there were, and still are, a lot of people in South Africa affected and infected by it. “I am a very compassionate and empathetic person, and the stigma around HIV, and the narrative...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Science & Technology 2018
Neil Thomas Stacey sees his “distrust of authority and semblance of self-reliance” as essential ingredients to his success. “Those are rare traits in academia, and surprisingly valuable,” says the 31-year-old. “Most scientists have a strong herd instinct, so a...
