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Farai Mubaiwa

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Farai Mubaiwa

Farai Mubaiwa is a change-maker, a TEDx speaker, a One Young World Ambassador and a King’s Principal’s Global Leadership Award recipient. In 2018 she was named as one of the 100 Mandelas of the Future by Media24 and in 2020 she was rated as one of the top 100 Influential Young South Africans. Mubaiwa is a Dalai Lama 2019 Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Stellenbosch University Exceptional Alumni award.

True mentorship is not about hierarchy. It’s about co-creation. Photo: File
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

Black women: Unseen superheroes of the workplace

Black women face unconscious bias, added responsibilities and a lack of support in the workplace. Until this changes, transformation is not complete

  • Farai Mubaiwa
8 min read

Volunteering can help young people build skills and get jobs

Organisations and the state are tackling the youth unemployment crisis, and young people can also play their part

  • Farai Mubaiwa
5 min read
A South Durban organisation is applying to join the high court battle between petrochemical giant Engen and Wentworth residents. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACTION 24

Environmental activism is not a whites-only issue

Climate change is part of the daily scourge of oppression that poor black South Africans face

  • Farai Mubaiwa
5 min read