Sumeya Gasa (25)

Sumeya Gasa (25)

Journalist Sumeya Gasa is an expert in the new skills needed to disseminate information in our multimedia world. She combines the arts of writing, documentary filmmaking and researching to create award-winning multimedia news stories. Born in Durban, she moved to...
Julia Turner (31)

Julia Turner (31)

Julia Turner first thought about becoming a doctor as a teenager when she encountered a man who had been attacked by an elephant during a trip to Zimbabwe. “I desperately wanted to help him but I didn’t know how to,” she says. “I hoped that (by becoming a doctor), the...
Dr Thandeka Ngcobo (25)

Dr Thandeka Ngcobo (25)

Dr Thandeka Ngcobo is a medical intern doctor at Mafikeng Provincial Hospital, an executive board member at the Godisanang Youth Empowering Foundation and a corporate affairs officer at Ngcobo Empire. She hails from a small village called Hluthankungu in...
Saki Annah Mokgadinyane (31)

Saki Annah Mokgadinyane (31)

From a very young age, Annah Mokgadinyane wanted to be involved in government and politics in order to make a meaningful contribution to the development of South Africa. She is the head of the governance, compliance, risk and strategy (GCRS) department of the...
Dr Thulwaneng Mashifane (33)

Dr Thulwaneng Mashifane (33)

Dr Thulwaneng Mashifane studied for a PhD in Ocean and Atmosphere Science at UCT and graduated in 2017. His social media was flooded with congratulations, as he was the first black South African to obtain a PhD in this field. According to research, South Africa has...