MS ALLEGRO DINKWANYANE
of empathy who weren’t really qualified. “This slowed down the whole team and I’m glad I went through that experience in my early years,” she says. Other problems she overcame include getting financial support and “as a young black female entrepreneur you face challenges that range from sexism to being told you are not qualified enough”. Forbes Africa honoured her in its 2017 30 Under 30 list, and as her companies grow, she hopes to inspire others by her resilience. “I want to inspire people to be independent, to value themselves, to chase their dreams, use their voices wisely and live a life of purpose.” BA Communications and Journalism, 2015 This is achieved by providing legal assistance to community groups and protesters across the country, running workshops on how to protest peacefully and legally, filing bail applications for arrested protesters, and referring matters to member civil society organisations when cases go to trial. “Peaceful protest actions must be seen as an effective method
in public relations and marketing services for the entertainment and lifestyle industries, corporate brands, artists, and events. Dinkwanyane has been a journalism intern with the BBC, a sports presenter on UJFM radio, and a marketing and social media manager with Trace TV. She founded Orgella at 21 while she was a journalism student. It now houses eight entities, including an online entertainment magazine and Orgella Helping Hands, a charity that provides food and clothing for the homeless. She’s also mother to an 18-month-old son, and her mantra is
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder and chief executive, Orgella Group
“Prioritise, prioritise, prioritise!”
While her proudest moment was creating a business that
When Allegro Dinkwanyane needed a name for her company she followed Oprah’s example and wrote her name backwards: Orgella. The company specialises
employs young people and offers internships to students, her biggest mistake was hiring people out
MR STANLEY MALEMATJA Attorney and sessional lecturer
human rights. Poor service delivery must be an issue of the past.” Malematja’s achievements have been accomplished through hard work and no shortage of talent. This was entirely evident during his studies, when he was named as the overall winner at the 6th Annual Child Law Moot Court Competition in 2015, and when he received the prestigious Danie en Chrissie Dörfling Floating Trophy from the University of Johannesburg for the next year’s edition. Now, as a sessional lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand and through his work at the Right2Protest Project at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Malematja is committed to changing paradigms surrounding protests, and helping them to become more effective.
of public participation, key to any democratic state, as
opposed to being perceived as an anti-government movement,” Malematja says. With global events in 2020 illustrating the necessity and effectiveness of peaceful protest movements to enact real change, the work that Malematja and Right2Know do could not be more relevant and important.
As an attorney at the Right2Protest Project, Stanley Malematja is committed to using the law to make a change in the lives of the most marginalised people in South African society. His goal is clear: “The respect, protection, promotion and realisation of
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), 2015
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