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Nicolene de Wee
Q&A Sessions: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: ‘How do we repair this brokenness?’
Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela spoke to Nicolene de Wee about the government’s failure to heal a broken country
Q&A Sessions: ‘A loud and a rude little man’
Conrad Koch, the award-winning performer and the human voice behind Chester Missing, tells Nicolene de Wee what it’s like to share his life with Chester and how anthropology…
Q&A Sessions: Royalty takes over at the Public Service Commission
Somododa Fikeni tells Nicolene de Wee about his new portfolio, his days as a herd boy in the Eastern Cape and being homeless for three weeks in the US
Q&A Sessions: ‘SA cannot address racism because it is a racist polity’ — Joel Modiri
UP’s youngest professor talks to Nicolene de Wee about racism, hate speech and youth empowerment, as well as his love of good wine and Afro-Cuban jazz
Q&A Sessions: African court ‘will be a tough job’ — Dumisa Ntsebeza
Lawyer, author and political activist Dumisa Ntsebeza talks to Nicolene de Wee about his appointment as judge of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. He also discusses…
Q&A Sessions: ‘Post Office was a journey of faith’
Mark Barnes, the former South African Post Office chief executive, talks to Nicolene de Wee about the highlights of his 30-year career in finance and markets. The 64-year-old…
Q&A Sessions: ‘The work I do at UCT is not about me’ — Mamokgethi Phakeng
UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng talks to Nicolene de Wee about transformation, the bullying claims against her, and her passion for music
Q&A Sessions: ‘Sport taught me to go for gold’
Being selected as the Inaugural Obama Leader in Africa in 2018 and now ranked among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans, Melene Rossouw talks to Nicolene de Wee about how she…
Q&A Sessions: ‘I should have fought harder for SA vaccine’ — Salim Abdool Karim
Professor Salim Abdool Karim talks to Nicolene de Wee about his responsibility as head of the ministerial advisory committee tasked with guiding the government’s response to the…
Q&A Sessions: ‘I’ll never vote ANC again’ — Ndileka Mandela
Ndileka Mandela, the first grandchild of Nelson Mandela, talks about her passion for rural development and that Covid-19 corruption and state capture evidence means she won’t…
Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala
The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she…
Q&A Sessions: Meet Thembisile Xulu, a doctor, hip-hop fan and mother
Dr Thembisile Xulu, the newly appointed chief executive of the Sanac Trust, tells Nicolene de Wee about a new plan to fight HIV, TB and STIs — and her hip-hop dance moves