This episode is brought to you by Young Professionals from Nedbank. The festive season is upon us and with that comes financial, mental and emotional obligations which can sometimes leave your January worse for wear. In today’s episode, I’ll be chatting to Ayanda Vana, Agri-tech startup COO,...
This episode is brought to you by Young Professionals from Nedbank. You have about a month to achieve an end-of-year goal and give yourself something to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. In today’s episode, I’ll be chatting with Aurelia Nxumalo, a legal practitioner and digital entrepreneur. We...
Meet Stephanie Kituri. Stephanie started out studying for a degree in political sciences with dreams of being the Secretary-General of the United Nations. After a retrenchment, she found herself leaning into her passion for clean hair care and established Vana Naturals, a natural hair care clean...
Meet Kentse Masilo. Kentse is the owner and founder of the self-named fashion house, Kentse Masilo. In 2017, Kentse became a finalist at Sunglass Hut New Talent Search at SA Fashion Week and in 2018 she went on the be the first-ever winner of Project Runway South...
Meet Ofentse Pitse. Ofentse is the first black South African woman to conduct and own an all-black orchestra. Ofentse Pitse played her first instrument at the age of 12. Ofentse studied architecture as a way to combine her love of the arts with numbers but never...
Meet Dr Katlego Lekalakala. Dr Lekalakala is a University of Pretoria MBChB graduate. She is a self-trained makeup artist and the founder of Beats by Kaz. Having recently become a mom, she decided to start Clueless Moms, a platform for moms to come together, share knowledge...
Meet Boipelo Mabe. Boipelo is one of the Miss South Africa Top 3 Finalists for 2017 but what many people may not know is that she had been in the pageant industry from the age of 6 when her mom got her into pageants in order...
Meet Karen Mwendera. Karen Mwendera is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is a university lecturer, a speaker, writer, anchor, moderator, and founder of Afrikaren Media. She curates the Forbes Africa 30 under 30 lists bringing together game changers from across the continent in business, sports, tech...
Meet Gugu Mfuphi. Gugu holds many titles including orator, moderator, broadcast journalist, senior anchor and so many more. She has also recently presented her first Tedx talk with the University of South Africa. Having studied accounting in university, Gugu quickly realized that the typical accounting route would...
I hadn't really felt like myself for a long time but I brushed it off as being due to the change of season (I hate winter) and just a general sense of being tired which happens to everyone every now and then. At least that's...