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Ntombohlanga Mqushulu
Program manager, Next Up
Mentoring youth leaders across South Africa.
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Nwabisa Dlova
Social worker, Masimanyane Women's Rights International
Advocating for the rights of women, social justice and sexual reproductive health, rooted in intersectional Pan-African feminism.
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Nwabisa Zantsi
Co-founder, Fulfill the Dream Academy
Working to improve access to information about gender-based violence, health care and the prevention of injustices relating to sexual and gender-based violence.
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Ongezwa Mbele
Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Working with young people in townships and incarcerated people to tell Indigenous stories and facilitate theater workshops.
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Patrick Mdeletshe
Field researcher, SECTION27
Working with civil society to address inequality and striving for social justice for all. Mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building. Building civil society voice from below for health system strengthening.
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Paul Modjadji
Founder and chairperson, Leaders Who Dare To Dream Foundation
Using arts activism and advocacy work to push for robust programs that cater to at-risk members of our communities.
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Pinkie Saidy Brown
Provincial lead, Y+SA
Advocating for the inclusion of queer women and people living with HIV; providing women and girls space to learn about their bodies and exercise their rights to sexual health.
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Pinky Mashiane
Founder and president, United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA)
Leading the United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA), representing the interests of hundreds of domestic workers across South Africa.
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Precious Mazibuko
Community scholar, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Centre for Civil Society
Using innovative learning tools to bridge the gap between the law, people and the state around matters relating to environmental ecology.
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Razia Vallie
Program manager, Western Cape Health Department
Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.
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René Sparks
National RTCQI/CLI manager, SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development) Consulting Ltd; director, HACCSA
Strengthening, monitoring and promoting quality HIV and laboratory services in South Africa. Passionate about sexual reproductive health rights, primary health care access and health systems strengthening.
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Samson Phakathi
Senior field officer, The Endangered Wildlife Trust
Mobilizing communities in rural South Africa to engage with conservation projects that provide environmentally-friendly alternative livelihoods.
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Sarah Summers
Co-creator, Coloured Mentality
Contributing to national discourses on race, class and gender through various media and artistic interventions as a playful activist, serious artist and media maverick.
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Shehnaz Munshi
Research project manager, Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity, University of the Witwatersrand
Advocating and mobilizing for policy reform to ensure affordable and accessible health for all. Using an intersectional feminist, decolonial research and praxis lens to advance health systems thinking and eradicate gender-based violence.
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Sibonelo Mchunu
Public interest lawyer, Western Cape Department of Economic Development
Serving as a South African public interest lawyer with the Department of Economic Development in the Western Cape, focused on public policy and regulatory reform.
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Sibongile Mtungwa
Director, Women's Leadership and Training Programme
Strengthening girls’ and women’s leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle patriarchal structures and systems, advance climate change adaptation strategies and restore ecosystems in communities.
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Sibusiso Fihlani
Drama therapist, Drama for Life
Using theater and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction. Working with young men to help them deal with their emotions to become better fathers.
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Sipamandla Mpikeleli
Development and CSI manager, South African Sugar Association
Advancing rural development through job placement opportunities for young people in the sugar cane value chain; bursaries to rural communities studying agriculture, science and engineering; supporting enterprise initiatives for women and the youth.
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Sithandiwe 'Stha' Yeni
Ph.D. candidate, University of Western Cape
Researching the meanings of land and agrarian livelihoods of Black people who were dispossessed of their land and stripped of property rights by colonial and apartheid regimes. Exploring implications for agrarian change today.
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Siyabonga Shange
Sales executive, NMI DSM
Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate society's most marginalized people to have equal opportunities and combat racism.
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Siyanda Siko
Head of sustainability programs, Sibanye-Stillwater
Facilitating a just transition to a post-mining economy that is socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and economically diversified in the southern Africa region.
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Sydelle Willow Smith
Co-founder, Sunshine Cinema
Co-leading Sunshine Cinema as a documentarian and media advocacy strategist working across Africa.
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Sylvia Siyo
Business case development manager, Transnet National Ports Authority
Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from underprivileged communities to succeed in industry.
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Tembinkosi Bonakele
Former commissioner, South African Competition Commission
Teaching as visiting professor of law at Wits Law School and an adjunct professor in the Business School of Nelson Mandela University.
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Tendai Chisirimunhu
Master's student in psychology
Addressing mental health for social change, with a decolonial approach that is holistic and community based, situating the lived experiences of the people of South Africa and wider Africa.
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Tess Nolizwe Peacock
Executive director, Equality Collective
Providing backbone support to increase collective participation and action to drive more responsive and accountable governance as a rural organizer.
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Thamsanqa Hamilton Hukwe
Chairperson, Abahlali Base Freedom Park
Organizing and mobilizing communities in the southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.
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Thania Gopal
Communications officer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
Exploring the role of the media in influencing and developing more equitable and socially just health systems.
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Thato Helmut Mathabathe
Procurement and supply chain management specialist, National Department of Health Global Fund
Contributing toward medicine access expansion using pharmacy innovation and technology.
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Tinashe T. Njanji
Coordinator, People's Health Movement South Africa
Promoting socioeconomic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.
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Tlamelo Mmamohlakoana Mothudi
Master's student of law, University of Cape Town; co-chair of health cluster, Makhanda Circle of Unity; house warden/manager, Allan Gray Residence
Working as a health advocate for the advancement of health equity with a particular interest in policy, public interest law, health research, public resource management and social accountability monitoring.
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Tracey Malawana
Deputy general secretary, Equal Education
Advocating for social justice and human rights through education and policy change, grassroots organizing and mobilization, building alliances and community resilience.
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Tracy Jooste
Head of Special Programmes, International Budget Partnership South Africa
Working with grassroots organizations to advocate for equitable access to housing, water, sanitation and health services. Leading a gender equity portfolio to secure policies and budgets designed to help urban poor people and serve women's needs.
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Tshepo Mokhadi
Environmental health practitioner, Bongani Regional Hospital
Implementing sustainable, green initiatives in the hospital environment that aim to reduce the carbon footprint, as well as the use of harmful chemicals (especially pesticides) and waste minimization strategies in the health sector.
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Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu
Founder and head curator, makwande.republic
Curating interventions, festivals, programs, and public art to draw attention to the politics of space and place making, healing justice, spatial and gender justice, heritage, and memory. Practicing artist and facilitator.
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Vinkey Sibuyi
Social worker, Epilepsy South Africa
Advocating for the right to education for children with learning impairments. Collaborating with other stakeholders to develop learning tools that could be used to accommodate their learning needs.
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Vusimuzi Zwane
Program manager, Southern Africa Movement of Mining Affected Communities (SAMMAC)
Working within communities and civil society movements to address inequality and strive for social justice for all; mobilizing community and building community voice through capacity building.
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Wendy Somlavi
Founder, Wheely in a Wheelie
Promoting recycling in townships in South Africa.
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Xena Scullard
Co-founder, Queer Feminist Film Festival
Amplifying the voices, stories and creativity of people of color, African LGBTQIAP+ people and feminists.
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Yolisa Lawrence
Programs coordinator, SGS Consulting
Strengthening literacy, youth leadership and the well-being of young women and girls in communities through engagement programs.
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Yvette Andrews
Nurse, Department of Health
Working with community health workers on the issue of health care access for marginalized communities.
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Zandile Mqwathi
Social behavior change communications manager, Pact South Africa
Advocating for the use of drama therapy as a key component of the public health system; trying to tackle the issue of mental health in South Africa.
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Zimbini Madikiza
Project assistant and community monilizer, Rural Health Advocacy Project
Building social collective power through equipping rural communities with the skills and knowledge of realizing their potential toward the advancement of social change. Enhancing agency to advocate for greater access and improvements to health care.
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