Game Changer: Nicholas Esterhuizen

Game Changer: Nicholas Esterhuizen

Art school brings to mind a bunch of trustafarians and middle-aged women fiddling around while a nude student tries not to fidget in the centre of the room. For Nicholas Esterhuizen, who threw himself into the deep end at a celebrated (yet pretty hardcore) Russian...
Game Changer: Bertus Basson

Game Changer: Bertus Basson

Chefs are exceptionally busy people, their schedules and efficacy putting the rest of us excel-pushing schlubs to shame. As chefs go, Bertus Basson is busier than most. For starters, the man has a consultancy business with his chef business partner Craig McCormack –...
Game Changer: Niren Tolsi

Game Changer: Niren Tolsi

The external and internal battles in South African courts are one of the most crucial playing fields of our adolescent democracy and Niren Tolsi covers it all in his beat as a senior legal reporter. While we may not sue like the USA, we do like ourselves a good court...
Game Changer: Tristan Dickerson

Game Changer: Tristan Dickerson

When President Jacob Zuma gets his dance on, the stuff flying around his bosom is leopard skin. Its use is widespread in Zulu culture and especially adherents of the Shembe religion. Enter Panthera’s Furs For Life Leopard Project Coordinator Tristan Dickerson who...
Game Changer: Vusi Thembakwayo

Game Changer: Vusi Thembakwayo

Vusi Thembakwayo can talk. Forget “gift of the gab”, this guy’s deep, resonant voice and slick delivery (devoid of the stuttering and painful thought-pauses the rest of us grapple with) of his own surname, Thembakwayo, makes him a world champion professional...