WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders. 
WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders.
Lerato Mbele is presenter of Africa Business Report on BBC World News. She also holds an MSc degree in Development Studies from The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Lerato joined the BBC in 2012 as presenter of flagship breakfast radio programme Newsday on the BBC World Service. Prior to that,… read more »
Ken Annandale is one of South Africa’s foremost success coaches and motivational speakers. Ken Annandale has assisted people to work, manage and sell better. His advice has helped individuals prosper, become leaders, find greater happiness and build better relationships. Each year Ken shares his ideas and experiences with thousands at seminars, conventions and meetings. He… read more »
Karen Kelly is an Internationally Qualified Emotional Intelligence Trainer and Business Coach, based in Port Elizabeth,South Africa. She has been a self-employed entrepreneur since 1994 and is an expert in career development, tough transitions, and personal development. She works locally and nationally. Karen has been instrumental in the start-up of three successful businesses and has… read more »
Justice Malala is an award-winning journalist, television host, political commentator and newspaper columnist. Malala writes regular weekly columns for The Times newspaper, the Financial Mail magazine, a monthly column for Destiny Man magazine and columns for The Guardian newspaper in London. He is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa. He also… read more »
In 2001 Guy Lundy gave a speech entitled “I pledge allegiance”, which quickly turned into a viral email, being sent around the world by South Africans wanting a positive perspective on what we have achieved as a nation. The massive response to that speech led Guy to co-author the book “South Africa: Reasons to Believe”…. read more »
Born white in apartheid South Africa but raised & bred as a Zulu man learning the skills of survival in Africa, GG Alcock was raised in a mud hut in one of the most poverty stricken and violent parts of Kwazulu Natal, Msinga. GG’s activist parents Neil and Creina Alcock raised their two sons in… read more »
Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936), often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. De Klerk was also leader of the National Party (which later became the New National Party) from February 1989 to September… read more »
Freek Robinson is a South African journalist, anchor and television presenter best known for hosting the SABC2 current affairs show Fokus, since 1994. Born and raised in Pretoria, Robinson matriculated from Hendrik Verwoerd High school in Pretoria in 1970. He received a B.A. (Hons) in Literature from the University of Pretoria in 1975 and began… read more »
Reuben Riffel is a household name for those who enjoy culinary television. Rueben is s celebrity judge on South Africa’s MasterChef. Growing up around the kitchen table with an expansive family that insisted on spending time together and eating well, our Chef de Cuisine Reuben Riffel has grown up experiencing how food can bind people… read more »
Pete Goffe-Wood was born in London but grew up in South Africa and has been a professional chef for the past 28 years. He was classically trained at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks and later returned to London. For nine years he worked for number of the capital’s top chefs in some of… read more »
Frank’s story is about the journey from invisible to invincible, resilience, resourcefulness, hope, courage, compassion, persistence, purpose and above all the power of the human spirit described by Dr Sherwin Nuland, author and surgeon as follows: “By the human spirit, what I mean is the ability that each one of us has to be something… read more »
Jeremy Mansfield, whose full name is Robert Jeremy Mansfield, was born in Grahamstown South Africa, where he stayed to attend Rhodes University. Jeremy Mansfield started his career when he was still studying. In 1985 he started working for Capital Radio 604, a Durban based station. That same year he was awarded the AA Vita as… read more »
Ferial Haffajee is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. She is the Editor-at-large of The Huffington Post, South Africa. Haffajee was the first black female editor of a national newspaper in South Africa. Haffajee is an advocate for press freedom and women’s empowerment. Ferial matriculated from Bosmont High School and went on to study… read more »
Jenny Morris – AKA The Giggling Gourmet – is one of South Africa‘s most-loved food personalities, she is an author, magazine writer, radio and TV presenter, celebrity chef, teacher, caterer and culinary tour guide who has had an ongoing love affair with food since she was a child, when she started making mouth watering treats… read more »
The most famous white woman in South Africa! Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28th September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune, tasting… read more »