Lethu Kapueja (34)

Lethu Kapueja (34)

With the world moving towards using knowledge, innovation and inventions as critical drivers of economic growth and development, there is an increasing need for competitiveness in knowledge generation. As centre manager for the Department of Science and...
Lesego Tlhwale (32)

Lesego Tlhwale (32)

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” Author James Humes’s words capture what Lesego Tlhwale has achieved in her life thus far: remarkable leadership through the art of communication. This journalism graduate, who is reading towards a qualification...
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...