Taahira Goolam Hoosen (27)

Taahira Goolam Hoosen (27)

Beyond the textbook: teaching and empowering, one person at a time. This is the motto health sciences lecturer Taahira Goolam Hoosen lives and works by, whose calling merges teaching and learning with community development to create positive implications for society....
Sikelelwa Geya Mdingi (35)

Sikelelwa Geya Mdingi (35)

An adventurous spirit and no fear of trying something new have guided Sikelelwa Geya Mdingi’s career choices over the past 13 years. She has worked in an array of media roles, starting at the SABC as intern on news and current affairs show Special Assignment. She...
Itumeleng Tsatsi (26)

Itumeleng Tsatsi (26)

Growing up with her four siblings in a single-parent home in Lebowakgomo township, north of Polokwane, Itumeleng Tsatsi explored her creative side, making paper gift bags and clothes for dolls, which she sold. She once organised a beauty pageant, collecting R5 from...
Stephanie Redinger (29)

Stephanie Redinger (29)

Stephanie Redinger is a postgraduate student studying her master’s in Medical Science in Paediatrics at the University of Witwatersrand. What makes her stand out, however, is that she was the lead author on the publication of a journal article — an outstanding...
Liesl Muller (31)

Liesl Muller (31)

Liesl Muller heads the Statelessness Project at Lawyers for Human Rights, one of the only projects of its kind in South Africa and the region. The project is geared towards helping people without a nationality and therefore without legal identity before the law to...