Ruby-Anne Birin, 25

Ruby-Anne Birin, 25

Ruby-Anne Birin hopes to use her work to establish a meaningful dialogue in modern people’s lives. The 25-year-old is an archaeological science student. Her current research focuses on understanding when people invent, adopt and abandon new technologies in Southern...
Kimberleigh Ashley Tommy, 27

Kimberleigh Ashley Tommy, 27

Kimberleigh Ashley Tommy is a biological anthropology PhD candidate with the Human Variation and Identification Research Unit at Wits University. Tommy says one of the proudest moments for her life so far was receiving her master’s degree. It meant more because she...
Tiyani Nghonyama, 27

Tiyani Nghonyama, 27

Technology expert Tiyani Nghonyama (27) is a hugely smart and delightfully modest young leader. He’s the co-founder of Geekulcha, an organisation that teaches technology skills to rural and under-privileged youth, and guides them as they start university or enter the...
Dr Mzamo Shozi, 35

Dr Mzamo Shozi, 35

Not many people even know what catalysis and organometallic chemistry are. But Mzamo Shozi is an expert in the field, and his knowledge will help push us into a green energy future. His work involves the conversion of sugar alcohols found in plants to valuable...
Khanya Champion, 33

Khanya Champion, 33

Nokukhanya Champion says she wants to see more female leaders in the telecommunications field. Now a senior manager at the BCX company, a subsidiary of the Telkom Group, Champion says that throughout her career she has always been the only black women engineer or one...