MR BONGINKOSI KALIPA Trainee auditor & agricultural entrepreneur, Auditor-General South Africa
“This project has brought multiple solutions to the community: jobs for unemployed youth, rental income for land owners and dividends for investors,” Kalipa says. He believes that if managed correctly, agricultural projects like this one could uplift communities for centuries to come. In 2019 Kalipa won the top spot at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Student Leadership Summit for his farming project. “Community success will reach someone I will never see nor meet. That’s my target, every day.” BCom Accounting, 2019
Growing up in poverty put Bonginkosi Kalipa on a mission to uplift his community and find practical solutions to hunger. While studying accounting at the University of Johannesburg, he learned that business knowledge and strategic planning can contribute to better managed food sources. Kalipa started implementing these skills at home, with a small farming project that provided fresh vegetables to his mother and the surrounding community. Since then, the project has grown to a five-hectare space, with plans to expand to 100-hectares by 2030. Statistics underpin the fourth industrial revolution and it’s exciting to see how it unfolds and evolves through my students,” says Jacques van Appel, lecturer and head of the statistics department at the University of Johannesburg. The Brakpan native considers his appointment as department head the proudest moment of his career, matched only by the receipt of his PhD degree from the same institution. Van Appel is the youngest department head in the science faculty. He manages the department’s day-to-day affairs and various teaching responsibilities, while still finding time to pursue other research interests in the fields of computational statistics, An engineer by profession with a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town, Confidence Tshilande recognised a need for a social media and networking platform exclusively for women where they could safely interact, connect, inspire and uplift one another. As nothing of the kind existed globally, she decided to create the first. Prestiio was launched in 2021 on International Women’s Day, which Tshilande says is her proudest moment. What really sets Prestiio apart are functions such as an SOS panic button, the ability to geolocate essential services such as police stations
MR JACQUES VAN APPEL Lecturer at University of Johannesburg
mathematical finance, and probability theory.
Van Appel and his team are striving to introduce their new actuarial sciences programme, which recently received accreditation from the Actuarial Society of South Africa. It’s aimed at assisting students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds to overcome industry barriers and to expedite their journey towards becoming actuarial professionals. “Don’t try to do everything on your own and don’t be ashamed to ask for help.” BSc in Mathematical Statistics, 2021 and hospitals, and the option to engage anonymously. All its functions are intended to protect the app’s users. This ultimately realises her goal to “empower women, address the inequality gap, and improve mentorship and networking opportunities with cross-institutional partners and women’s organisations locally and globally”. “Do not give up. The world is waiting for you to unleash your potential and bring about the change you want to see.” Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, 2013
MS CONFIDENCE TSHILANDE Founder and director, Prestiio
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