Mahashane Myakayaka, 34

Mahashane Myakayaka, 34

Mahashane Myakayaka is the legal and compliance lead for Sandvik, a multinational engineering company servicing the central, western and southern African markets. She is also the cofounder and strategic lead of legal tech start-up Basics Legal, which serves small and...
Khehla Makgato, 32

Khehla Makgato, 32

Khehla Makgato shares his time between Polokwane and Johannesburg, just as he divides it between creating art and writing about art. A historical awareness of the resilient leadership of black women, and the century-spanning erasure of their tales, is woven into the...
Khotso Mashile, 25

Khotso Mashile, 25

Khotso Mashile, known to her friends and peers as KayDee, is a socially minded creative who uses her art to empower and encourage the youth. She sings, writes and recites poetry, works in PR and has founded an organisation called Perfect Love Publications that seeks...
Nicho Gosebo, 31

Nicho Gosebo, 31

Lagos, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Paris are but a few places that Nicho Gosebo called home during his early twenties. After a jet-setting early career, he now resides in Heidelberg, Germany, where he manages the technical side of his employer’s telecommunications...
Jolandi Jacobs, 25

Jolandi Jacobs, 25

Last year Jolandi Jacobs began Running Raspberries, a women’s running community. It connects women in their communities and encourages them to run together. “No woman in South Africa should run alone in the streets,” she says. “Running Raspberries has more than 20...