Mamokgethi Phakeng

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Mamokgethi Phakeng, professor and vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town (UCT), is an internationally acclaimed researcher who is resolute in helping young people obtain higher education. If she could achieve one thing for South Africa, she says that it would...
Eltena Rethman

Eltena Rethman

With more than 24 years of experience across different sectors in a number of local and international organisations, Eltena Rethman is an expert in the NGO landscape. Having grown up in a township in a working-class family, Rethman’s circumstances were anything...
Ofentse Pitse

Ofentse Pitse

Ofentse Pitse is the first black South African woman to conduct her own all-black orchestra. The Tshwane resident says her family’s involvement in the church through the Salvation Army is what led to her playing her first instrument. This is what got the ball...
Tarisai Mchuchu-MacMillan

Tarisai Mchuchu-MacMillan

Maya Angelou famously declared: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” These are words that never cease to inspire Tarisai Mchuchu-MacMillan and they have formed the...
Surika Sookram

Surika Sookram

Having worked in the male-dominated IT industry as a young woman, Surika Sookram faced many challenges. Sookram now works at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), a Japanese telecommunications company that operates in more than 200 countries and regions....