Meet the Essops, A Family of Medical Academics and Doctors
When both your parents are in the field of medicine, it might be the case that you would also want to follow in their footsteps. […]
Month: October 2025
How Cape Flats Kid, Janade du Plessis, Co-Founded a Billion Rand Company
When Janade du Plessis started his journey into entrepreneurship, it was as a kid selling everything from vegetables to peanuts to the surrounding community. His […]
How Zsa-Zsa became One of the Youngest Law Professors in South Africa
When Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel was 9 years old, her parents divorced, leaving her mom struggling to raise two little girls on a grocery store worker’s income. […]
Rochelle Named Vice President of Disney+ Heading up sub-Saharan Africa
Rochelle Knock’s resume tells the story of an executive head that is one of the most in-demand in Africa. It is then no surprise that […]
How Dr. Curtly Stevens Started as a Shop Assistant and Became a Doctoral Researcher
Dr Curtley Stevens is proud of the fact that his first job was as a sales person at a Game Store. He had just matriculated […]
A Profile of Clicks CEO, Bertina Engelbrecht
Born in the Eastern Cape’s Nieu-Bethesda and raised in Cape Town’s Elsies River, Bertina’s parents were the driving force behind her success. Her father, a […]
Tylon Smith Signs Up for Queens Park Rangers
Growing up in the informal settlement of Stellenbosch’s Kriefgat, Tylon Smith never had his own soccer ball and only received his first pair of boots […]
When Eldrid Jordaan Founded a Company Worth more than R4 billion
In 2022, Eldrid Jordaan decided to leave the company he co founded. The company had built a chat app called, GovChat, which connected ordinary South […]
Introducing Dr. Rechelle Jacobs, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Growing up in Heideveld, Rechelle Jacobs’ family did not have a lot. Surrounded by poverty and crime, she struggled with low self esteem, especially the […]
Dr Samantha Cairncross Receives PhD in Groundbreaking Study
Dr Samantha Cairncross’ research is described as groundbreaking, a first of its kind and lifesaving. She studied the genes of Sub-Saharan Africans suffering from head […]