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...
Celiwe Mabaso, 32

Celiwe Mabaso, 32

Celiwe Mabaso does the important work of identifying community needs, then designing and implementing socioeconomic and enterprise development programmes to address them, with the aim of creating thriving local economies. Mabaso’s proudest moment was when the first...
Diketso Setho, 24

Diketso Setho, 24

Diketso Setho is a self-taught IT programmer. He says his childhood struggles have never deterred his spirit to understand information technology and mingle with the crème de la crème of the digital world. As the founder of GH Mall, an online shopping portal, Setho...
Raikane Seretlo, 33

Raikane Seretlo, 33

Changing the status quo of healthcare in Africa requires the efforts of people such as Raikane Seretlo — a clinical applications specialist for Philips, whose work entails leading obstetrics projects at hospitals and conducting training on medical software and...