Dali Luthuli, 26

Dali Luthuli, 26

Freestyle performance poet Dali Luthuli hopes his work on stage and in the classroom will lead to a more open approach to tackling mental wellness in young people. Luthuli is with an organisation called Jiyuu, which helps high school students express themselves...
Cameron Joseph, 23

Cameron Joseph, 23

Cameron Joseph is a medical student in his fifth year at the University of Cape Town. Despite his youth, Joseph is ambitious and outgoing, already making a significant impression on all those who encounter him. As a clinical student, he rotates through various...
Lebogang Diale, 30

Lebogang Diale, 30

Democratising education in South Africa is the task Lebogang Diale has set himself. As the cofounder and executive director of Gradesmatch, an ed-tech company using big data and artificial intelligence to create tools and technologies, Diale is helping young people...
Gary Hartley, 35

Gary Hartley, 35

Cape Town-based Gary Hartley is the founder and editor-in-chief of SCAFFOLD — an online platform that hosts indepth interviews with queer South African artists and shares international queer arts and culture news. Scaffold is a one-man show, but that doesn’t deter...
Neziswa Titi, 35

Neziswa Titi, 35

Describing herself as a “child-centric methodologist”, Neziswa Titi conducts research that prioritises children’s voices. How they make meaning of experiences of sexual violence and trauma was the topic of the studies for which she was recently awarded her PhD at the...