Christine de Kock (25)

Christine de Kock (25)

What do you do when you start your career as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineer at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)and do research on the use of AI for astronomical discovery in terabyte scale data? You leave to study an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the...
Nompumelelo Ramatsoga (29)

Nompumelelo Ramatsoga (29)

Nompumelelo Ramatsoga is a former basketball player-turned-coach. Her passion for the game and heart for young people see her as a community development consultant and aspiring sports psychologist who is breaking barriers in the male-dominated arena. Ramatsoga fell in...
Madichaba Chelopo-Mgobozi (30)

Madichaba Chelopo-Mgobozi (30)

As a child Madichaba Chelopo-Mgobozi used to think that the successful people in the world were the ones on TV. Despite the gendered nature of Stem fields, she easily gravitated towards biochemistry and did not let the fact that she was outnumbered deter her....
Ntwanano Sipho Mapfumari (26)

Ntwanano Sipho Mapfumari (26)

A Kwame Nkrumah quote — “Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started” — is one Ntwanano Sipho Mapfumari keeps on his mind all the time. At just 26, Mapfumari has reached some heady heights....
Thabisa Mjo (30)

Thabisa Mjo (30)

Young designer Thabisa Mjo has a huge success on her hands as the creator of the 2018 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa. The annual award presented by the Design Indaba was won by her enormous light fitting, a stunning 10kg creation that drips from the ceiling in...