Yumna Toefy, Managing Director of MAMAS Alliance is a social worker by profession with over 20 years’ experience working within the NGO and government sectors. She has eight years of academic experience as an Honours lecturer at the Social Development Department at the University of Cape Town. “When you intentionally use your everyday life to […]
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Matsi Modise is an avid entrepreneur and entrepreneurship activist. She has immense experience in corporate governance and building companies from the bottom up. She is an international keynote speaker, sits on various boards and is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shapers Community and the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO). Matsi joined the
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Charmaine grew up in a fragile community and when she left matric went straight into a working environment and found a mentor, a coach, who helped her demystify the ICT industry and walked her journey with her. She has over two decades of telecommunications experience working with private and public sector organisations across Africa. She
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Tracey Henry graduated as a social worker and started her career with the Chamber of Mines, involved with employee assistance programmes, working with families with children, and doing counselling one on one. She soon realised that she wanted to reach a greater audience and joined Anglo American’s Corporate Social Investment Department. “That really gave me
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Taki Netshitenzhe, Director of External Affairs, Vodacom SA and Chairperson, Vodacom Foundation, is a lawyer by profession and spent 20 years in government as a law writer and a legal and policy advisor for the intelligence services. After 10 years within the intelligence and security framework, she ventured into cybersecurity specialising in communications security. Her
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Polo Leteka is the Chairperson and Founder of IDF Capital and a qualified accountant with extensive experience in both the South African Public and Private sectors. She concluded her articles by emphasising the importance of finishing something you start, thus making her highly marketable for corporate and investment positions. While not sure what type of
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Selebogo Molefe, a.k.a. DrLifesgud is co-founder of The Hookup Dinner (THUD), co-founder of The People’s Fund and currently MD of The Biz Plug, an enterprise development agency that focuses on the retail sector in the township and rural development space. His message to Africa’s Youth is, look to solve the problems in front of you
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Akan Nelson is the Founder and CEO of Evolve Credit, which produces credit infrastructure and software for lenders in Africa to manage their entire lending business, end-to-end. As a product of the African Leadership Academy, Akan believes in surrounding yourself with a community. He was born and raised in Nigeria and has spent time studying
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Africa’s youngest climate change activist and Kenya’s youngest Mashujaa (national hero) is changing the world of environmental awareness and sustainability, one tree at a time. Ellyanne Chlystun-Githae Wanjiku is 12 years old and loves riding her bicycle around Hillview Estate in Nairobi, just as any young person in grade seven loves to do when they’re
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Ian Mangenga is the founder and CEO of Digital Girl Africa, a digital hub that bridges the gap between women in Africa and technology through critical digital skills training and tech career guidance. She founded the company in 2018 after realising that she had lost passion for the work she was doing at the time.
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