SIBA

MTONGANA
HOT STUFF
When she was introduced
to SA audiences through
her show Cooking With
Siba on Mzansi Magic in
2011, her beauty, warmth
and mouth-watering
African-with-a-twist
meals made us instantly
fall in love. Growing up in
Mdantsane, East London,
Sibahle Mtongana always
loved food, so a degree
in food sciences was the
obvious choice after
matriculating. Her work
on her show and in Drum
and Taste magazines was
award-winning, but the
best was yet to come.
A call from the Food
Network, which features
all the top celebrity chefs
in the world, would take
her career to another
level. The resulting show,
Sibas Table, is watched in
more than 90 countries
throughout Africa, the
Middle East and Europe,
and since April shes been
on the Cooking Channel
in America, too the rst
South African chef to
crack the US market. The
show is so popular its
getting a second season
and she has another series,
which shes just nished
shooting, called Siba in
the Kitchen. Mtonganas
now a regular at food
festivals far and wide,
and a judge on the local
version of US hit Chopped.
The secret to success, she
says, like a true domestic
goddess, is balancing all
spheres of my life family,
career and the spiritual.
NEWSMAKERS &
SHAPESHIFTERS
These are the names that inltrate our everyday life.
Its time to acknowledge their original talent and often
limitless energy. Theyre personalities at the frontline
of culture: some bring glamour, others artistic evolution,
even serious sex appeal. But its their sheer quality of
work that reminds us they embody A-list excellence.
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GREG MINNAAR
DOWNHILL TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Its better to watch footage of downhill mountain-biker
Greg Minnaar in slow motion as he hurtles down the
track, avoiding obstacles, against the clock, at breakneck
speed. That way you can truly appreciate his skills as he
winds his way ahead of all comers in international events,
from Switzerland and Canada to Italy and New Zealand.
Hes secured three World Cup Series Overall titles (in
2001, 2005 and 2008) and been World Champion three
times (in 2003 plus back-to-back in 2012 and 2013);
when he doesnt win, hes still been on the podium for
the past decade. Minnaar defended his title last year in
Pietermaritzburg, the town where he was born. By the
age of four he was racing BMXes, but moved over to
motocross, in which he competed for 11 years. He won
his rst-ever motocross race, even lapping some of the
competitors, and one year ramped his motorbike over 10
cars for charity at iDube Raceway. In high school he gave
up motocross because he wasnt getting enough time to
practise, but then his parents bought a bicycle shop and
he made the move to pedal power. He ended up quitting
school early to turn pro. This year the superbiker from
Sleepy Hollow has been battling a serious knee injury,
but hell soon be back leading the pack.
FANA MOKOENA
LEADING MAN
Actor Fana Mokoena has racked up an impressive CV of
Hollywood work, including in Safe House, Country of My
Skull and Hotel Rwanda (without having to move to the
US to do so). A small role in Machine Gun Preacher in 2011
would lead to director Marc Foster remembering him
(no audition needed) for his next movie and Mokoenas
biggest role to date: 2013s World War Z, sharing screen
time with Brad Pitt, no less. That opened me up to many
industry secrets and gave me a lot of exposure, he says.
He is listed by IMDB as one of the African actors on the
verge of making a major impact in the international lm
industry. And South Africans think its about time. Weve
been enjoying Mokoenas talent for years, on TV shows
such as Hopeville and The Lab. He played Govan Mbeki
in Long Walk to Freedom, and in a case of art turning into
real life, his latest role is as an EFF MP, where he hopes
to effect positive change for the media and entertainment
industries. Mokoena would like to try scriptwriting and
producing and play Hamlet and King Moshoeshoe before
I die but rst theres the sequel to World War Z.
MARCUS
BYRNE
THE OTHER NOBEL
PRIZE WINNER
I want to share my
passion for poo with you,
are the words Marcus
Byrne often uses to begin
his talks on dung beetles
and their dirty dancing
and how they can teach
humans to solve complex
visual problems and
interpret the universe we
live in. The professor of
zoology and entomology
at Wits University doesnt
just focus on dung beetles;
all insects fascinate him,
a passion he passes on
easily to diverse audiences
around the world. The
reason? Byrne believes
some insects may hold the
key to how to restrain
invasive alien weeds that
threaten biodiversity, and
that learning how dung
beetles perceive the world
may help us to teach
machines how to make
decisions of their own.
Last year he won the Ig
Nobel Prize, awarded
every year at Harvard, in
recognition of illustrious
(and often eccentric)
people whose research
rst makes one laugh,
then makes one think
Byrne and his team won
for dressing up dung
beetles in designer gear
and putting them under
the simulated night sky
at the Joburg Planetarium
to show how they use the
Milky Way as a compass
to orientate themselves.
Hes part of a new
generation of researchers
who are taking the starch
out of academia. G
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PENELOPE ANDREWS
MINORITY SUPPORT
Her mothers death from asthma, when Penelope Andrews
was 13, was the dening moment of her childhood. In
her working-class Cape Town neighbourhood, there
were no medical facilities close by and a doctor arrived
45 minutes too late to save her. But her mother, who
thought education was very important, had sent her
daughter to a Catholic girls school. She went on to study
law at the University of Natal; while there, she worked in
a legal-aid ofce and confronted the hardships apartheid
laws created for poor black people, which inuenced her
later legal scholarship and focus on justice for women
and people of colour. She has been an advocate for
Australias Aborigine population and for abused women
in Queens, New York, written several books, and this year
was named as one of the most inuential minority
lawyers in the US. Shes taught all over the world
from Canada to Germany to the US, and was a nalist for
a seat on SAs Constitutional Court in 2008. Our loss,
however, has been a gain for Albany Law School in New
York state, where she is now president and dean the
rst permanent female head of this prestigious school to
be appointed since its founding in 1851.
RUBEN REDDY
VISION ON A GRAND SCALE
He loved cricket in high school, so it made sense for Ruben Reddy to marry his love for
sport with his love of architecture when it came to a career. Reddy has spent the last 25
years carving out an impressive name for himself, starting with a redesign of Kingsmead
Stadium in Durban for the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Since then Reddy has been involved in
several high-prole projects, including the City of Cape Towns bid for the 1996 Olympics,
the 2010 Soccer World Cup in SA and Russias bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics
for which he later built the ice-hockey arena in Sochi. The Russians have kept him on to
design stadium concepts for the 2018 FIFA World Cup too. His work around the world,
including a stadium-hotel-shopping complex in Slovenia, has resulted in his being
considered a specialist, and he has co-authored two editions of the FIFA Stadium Book.
Its not all about sporting cathedrals, though; hes also behind Durbans King Shaka Airport,
Cape Towns One&Only hotel, as well as two buildings in honour of two world icons: the
Nelson Mandela Childrens Hospital in Gauteng and the Gandhi Memorial in Durban.
CAPE TOWN OPERA CHORUS
SWEET HARMONY
While operas star soloist sopranos and tenors often get all the attention, there are
23 voices making beautiful music together that have the world sitting up and paying
attention. The Cape Town Opera Chorus showcases SAs greatest grassroots skill
singing together in harmony. Mesmerizing audiences with anything from Verdi to
Gershwin, they produce a sound that is international yet distinctly South African, and
one that cannot be duplicated. Under the direction of Albert Horne, chorus master from
2007 to 2014, the group took the Opera Chorus of the Year Award at the inaugural
International Opera Awards in London last year for its energy and exciting
commitment, which never fails to communicate itself to an audience. And audiences
cant get enough of them as Horne says, its quite rare to nd a chorus that can ll the
worlds concert halls with their full-throated singing while dazzling with impressive
dance moves and versatile repertoire. This year theyve toured the Netherlands and
been to Berlin, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Barcelona (presenting Porgy and Bess with a 1970s
Soweto theme), Munich (performing folk-opera Mandela Trilogy) and the UK (a daring
production of Show Boat) making their mark on stages, one beautiful melody at a time.
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NEWSMAKERS &
SHAPESHIFTERS
SUZAAN HEYNS
FANTASTICAL FASHION DESIGNER
Her catwalk concepts have included Voortrekker Futurism, origami-inspired tucks
and pleats, shiny reptilian scale textures, inside-out bodies and fabrics dipped in
cement to create truly sculptural garments. In 2013 she was one of the rst designers in
the world to use a newly engineered ecofriendly fabric made from cork (a collaboration
with Amorim of Portugal) and recently created a dress out of false nails. When it comes
to fashion, Suzaan Heyns has been running her race with a unique, singular, head-
turning style for over a decade. After bagging an Elle magazine bursary to study design,
she launched her own label in 2009 and won Most Creative Range at that years African
Fashion Awards. Known for an avant-garde, architectural, surrealist take on fashion as
functional art (even her agship store at Melrose Arch is an evolving art installation),
shes featured in international magazine Fast Forward Fashion alongside the likes of
Vivienne Westwood. In 2012 she was chosen to represent SA at the London Olympics
Ekhaya Village showcase and, last year, was picked by Disney to create an Inspired by
Minnie range (the campaign has featured a dozen designers from around the world),
celebrating Minnie Mouses pop-icon style. The collection, in true Suzaan Heyns style,
features a tuxedo jacket with lapels like ears, a shift dress wrapped in a large bow, and a
blouse encrusted with dozens of sparkly cartoon eyes.
KEO MOTSEPE
SCENE STEALER
Burn the Floor aint your grandmas ballroom warns
the posters. The dance extravaganza has been touring
the world with sell-out shows for over a decade, and
among its cast is Keoikantse Motsepe. Hed represented
SA in all major Latin American dance championships
since age 13 and was our champion in every age category
for eight years running, before hooking up with Burn the
Floor in 2012. Motsepe was ve years old when he tagged
along to a friends dance class and found his calling.
Anybody can be a dancer, but most dont have the passion,
says Motsepe. I do Ill do anything for it. That anything
is what drove him to contact the manager of Burn the
Floor after being dragged to see it by his dance teacher in
Joburg. I was focusing on my championships and wasnt
interested, he admits. But I watched the rst number, and
right there and then I was done sold! He secured an
audition with choreographer Jason Gilkison, who was as
taken with Motsepe as Motsepe had been with the show.
With the production touring 30 countries, Motsepe has
had to quickly adapt to life on the road, performing on
a stage and fast costume changes. Having mastered his
trade, Motsepe is now partnering Olympian athlete Lolo
Jones on the latest season of Dancing With the Stars in the
US the shows rst-ever black professional dancer. G
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ROBERTA NAICKER
THE BRAINS BEHIND THE BUSINESS
In the midst of the 2008 global recession, Roberta Naicker joined CNBC Africa as head of nance, facing the
daunting task of meeting budgets and streamlining operations. Naicker excelled, showing she had what it takes to lead
successfully. Ive always done something that I was a little not ready to do. I think that that is how you grow. When
you push through those moments [of doubt], its then that you have a breakthrough. Naickers desire to grow, and her
business acumen, led to her being promoted to general manager of CNBC Africa in 2010. A year later she was appointed
group MD following her role in the strategic planning, nancing and implementation of not one but three business
entities Forbes Africa, Africa Business News (ABN) Productions and ABN Training Institute. Her pioneering work to
make ABN the biggest Pan-African business news conglomerate hasnt gone unnoticed in 2012 she was nominated in
the corporate category of the BWAs Business Woman of the Year Awards, and last year she was a nalist in both the
Top Women Awards and DHL Rising Star Awards. She says her principle in life has always been: Its not about how
to get started, its about how to get noticed. And the world has certainly noticed.
REDI TLHABI
RIDING HIGH ON THE AIRWAVES
Growing up in Soweto in the 1980s, all Redi Tlhabi wanted
to be was an adult, so I could have my independence and
freedom to choose. It is perhaps this desire that allows
her to wear so many hats and pull off the lot with grace.
Journalist, TV and radio show anchor, author, runner,
philanthropist and mother are some of the titles she
answers to. Her name, work ethic and quality of journalism
has made her stand out, serving as the empathic voice
through which people can tell their stories. Tlhabis career
in media has spanned over 15 years; shes interviewed,
argued with and given insight into people like Nelson
Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Tony Blair. But its not only
the big names she condently handles debates on her
Talk Radio 702 show with passionate listeners from many
different walks of life. Shes worked for broadcasting
giants such as SKY and BBC, and had her own show,
South2North, on Al-Jazeera exposing her to a global
audience. Tlhabi also displayed a talent for telling a piece
of her own story in her book Endings and Beginnings,
which won the Alan Paton Award (for non-ction) in 2013.
Its now being turned into a movie. Whatever she ends up
doing next, Tlhabis success story has come from choosing
to be whomever she wants to be.
GOLDFISH
SUPER GROOVERS
Take a bit of jazzy sax,
ute, keyboard and double
bass, add Dominic Peters
and David Poole with their
massive talent for creating
infectious electronica
beats, and you get Goldsh
a unique live-instrument,
freeform improv DJ act
thats got the world on its
feet. They rst surfaced in
2006 (with a debut album
recorded in a bedroom)
but did not remain SAs
best-kept secret for long
catching the eye of
international club brand
Pacha, for which they
recorded an album in 2008.
The duo has made the US
iTunes Top 10 Dance Chart
with their song Fort Knox
(also used in Kias ad
campaigns in America
and Canada), won Best
Alternative Act and Best
Pop Act at the MTV Africa
Awards, and were the
rst to ever to sell out the
Amsterdam Dance Event
two months in advance.
Theyve nabbed multiple
(much-coveted) summer
residencies in party mecca
Ibiza, in between returning
for regular gigs in SA and
jetsetting like demons
they do over 100 concerts
and festivals a year, from
So Paulo and Croatia to
Mexico and Paris, from the
Sydney Opera House to the
iconic Glastonbury Festival
to opening skiing season
in Verbier. Earlier this year,
they toured Europe, played
Dubais Sandance and, as
we speak, theyre taking in
multiple cities in Brazil
and then the US. Groovy
much? Wed say so.
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NEWSMAKERS &
SHAPESHIFTERS
GLAD
DIBETSO
A-CLASS
INSPIRATION
The obsession with
excellence will take you to
places you would never
imagine, says Glad Dibetso.
And he should know. After
matriculating in 1992, he
left Mogwase (in former
homeland Bophuthatswana)
to pursue his dreams,
running various businesses
some successes, some not
so much. His failures, like
being insolvent, are the
reason Dibetso decided to
enrol for an MBA at
the Gordon Institute of
Business Science at the age
of 35. After my entrance
tests I was told that I was an
average student and people
who got accepted into GIBS
were above average. They
said I should not waste my
time, says Dibetso. But he
did, and this time round he
was going to truly stand out.
He graduated with three
top subject awards and 15
distinctions which led to
him being the rst African
to win the International
MBA Student of the Year
Award in 2013, out of 40 000
graduates. Dibetso, now MD
of Dimension Data West
Africa, has started learning
Portuguese and French
(with English, the main
business languages in
Africa), and as ambassador
of the international MBA
recently addressed directors
and deans of the worlds
universities in Paris. As he
told Finweek: You can invest
in a lot things, but if you put
your money into your mind,
youll never lose it.
KELLY HOPPEN
GLOBAL BRAND
On the calm foundations of her East-meets-West
symmetrical aesthetic complete with pebbles, cacti,
wood and neutral hues punctuated with accents of
rock-chic glass and chrome Kelly Hoppen has built
an empire spanning a design school, Channel 5 show,
online shop, eight coffee-table books (the latest includes
a foreword by her stepchildren, actress Sienna and
designer Savannah Miller) and a slot on QVC that shifts
thousands of pounds worth of her branded merchandise.
I put a stick in the ground years ago and said, This is
what I am, and Ive stuck to it ever since. Its the same
for every successful brand. Know what you are and dont
deviate, she says. From superyachts, New York lofts and
British Airways rst-class cabins to a client list of A-list
celebrities, including the Beckhams and Gwyneth
Paltrow, Hoppen, who was born in Cape Town and
started her business at 16, has reason to be self-assured.
I dont think I would have stayed at the top all these
years, she told the Telegraph, if I hadnt been doing
something right. In 2009 she was made a Member of
the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for service to
interior design, and last year became a judge on the
BBCs Dragons Den entrepreneurial reality show. If
there is anything Hoppen knows, its how to turn
a dragons den into an award-winning home.
TREVOR NOAH
LAUGHING UP THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
Trevor Noah is H-O-T. Searing, aming, sizzling hot
(and hes not half bad to look at either). Which is saying
something in the cruel world of stand-up comedy, where
an individual is pitted against an unforgiving audience.
But Noahs arc has never spanned so wide. In the last few
years, he has arguably been the most notable ambassador
for South Africa, successfully introducing his breed of
local humour to a wider audience. Noahs shows where
he blows touchy subjects such as race and sex like feathers
around the room have been sell-outs around the globe.
He has an uncanny sense of what audiences will connect
with. Since he rst famously appeared on Jay Lenos
show in 2012, and a year later David Lettermans show,
he has become a regular on international screens (his
demonstration of Xhosa clicks on the BBCs QI is
priceless). His African American comedy special screens
on Showtime, and theres rumours of a US sitcom to be
produced by Will Smith. The Fresh Prince of Soweto?
someone jokingly tweeted. Since conquering SA and
now the world, cruising this zeitgeist roll is what Noah
deserves. Forget the princely stuff, though this is a man
who would be Comedy King.
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PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
In February, the UKs Daily Mail hailed her as one of operas most exciting new voices.
Shes come a long way since the quantity surveying student thought shed like to study
music instead. Pumeza Matshikiza was accepted at the SA College of Music, where
composer Kevin Volans recognised a unique soprano voice. After graduating cum laude
from UCT, she auditioned for the Royal College of Music in London, where she got a full
scholarship and life would never be the same. By 2010 shed come rst in the Veronica
Dunne International Singing Competition and won the Fyffe-Brackett Prize. In 2011
she signed a three-year contract with the Stuttgart Opera in Germany where critics
raved What a discovery! and called her an open-hearted singer who deservedly won
the audiences heart. Next up is a European tour (including Paris, Prague, Helsinki and
Moscow), her debut at La Scala in Milan and a premiere with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra. While Europe is enjoying her voice at the moment, the rest of the world did
get to hear her singing at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. And,
signed with Decca Classics known for recording legends such as Pavarotti her debut
album Voice of Hope has just been released. According to Matshikiza, it tells the story
of my incredible journey from Africa to Europe [with] songs and arias that prove music
unites people across the world and brings cultures together. Thats music to our ears.
WENDY GERS
INTERNATIONAL CURATOR
Cyber ceramics, sound installations, digital pottery
wheels and virtual reality: for a craft thats changed little
over millennia, the medium of clay is now turning full-tilt
future-forward. The revolutionary possibilities of new
technology have red the imagination of Wendy Gers,
whose forward-thinking proposal won the much-coveted
curatorship of the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
(making her the rst South African to curate a major
international art event). Since it opened in May, the
Biennale has had a record-breaking 5.5 million visitors.
It includes works by 65 artists from over 30 countries,
but Gers has ensured 15 of these are from SA, the highest
number from a single nation at the Biennale. Visitors
have seen 3D-printed vessels and engaged with works via
smartphone or tablet, but Gers, a lecturer at the school of
art and design in Valenciennes, France, was adamant that
the Biennale would embrace both ends of the ceramics
spectrum, from handmade to hi-tech. She has since been
invited to work with several international ceramics
bodies on ethical issues and codes of conduct governing
collaborations between Western artists and artisans from
developing countries. Who better than a South African,
an art historian and a woman marked by our countrys
post-colonial legacy, to act as an agent of change,
pluralism and diversity in one of the most ancient of arts?
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TREVOR JONES
CINEMATIC SOUNDMASTER
Hes the most famous South African in Hollywood
youve never heard of. Trevor Joness purposefully
maintained low prole is due to the infringements on
ones private life that fame brings. But Jones is well-
known to Tinseltowns top directors and producers
who insist that he compose the music for their lms.
In the 40 years since leaving District Six at age 17,
Jones has written over 120 scores for lm and TV
(Excalibur, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Last of
the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father, Notting Hill,
G.I. Jane, Cliffhanger), worked with Sting, David Bowie,
U2, Sinead OConnor and Britney Spears, and conducted
the best symphony orchestras, string quartets, soloists
and choirs. His fusing of acoustic and electronic sounds
saw him create soundtracks no one else had attempted.
The result? Several Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTA
nominations and an Oscar. In 1995 Time called Jones
one of the top ve composers revolutionising music in
lm. This from a boy who combined his two loves
music (he learnt on his grandmas piano) and lm (he
bunked school to watch movies and if the projector
broke down, hed sit alone in the dark cinema listening
to the music) in a conspiracy to entertain. Jones has
returned to settle in Cape Town to champion his projects:
scholarships for SA musicians abroad, mentorship and
outreach programmes and a focus on his old high school.
Nows my time to put back into the pot of fate.
NEWSMAKERS &
SHAPESHIFTERS
BRUCE LEGG & RICHARD MORGAN-GRENVILLE
SOCCER STARS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
When the Supa Strikas comic strip was rst published
in City Press in 2001, few could have predicted it would
one day be a hit in 130 countries. Created by two UCT
students, Bruce Legg and Richard Morgan-Grenville, the
comic about a soccer player named Shakes has gone from
being a local illustration to an international TV series in
just 12 years. Their dream initially was to create a great
comic read that was accessible to all South Africans.
Now, with a footprint from Southeast Asia through
the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America and
Europe, Shakes is uent in 15 languages including
Mandarin, Arabic, Polish and Italian! says Legg. Such
is its popularity that these days it takes a team of 30, based
in Cape Town, to produce it. Its the only locally made
animated TV series ever to be aired in Western Europe,
and one of the few shows the Disney Channel (which has
loads of its own content) has bought in from independent
producers. In South Africa, Supa Strikas remains the
biggest-selling publication, 600 000 copies a month. The
TV version is No.1 on the Disney Channel in SA and Zoom
in Israel, and No.2 on Disney in Italy and Nickelodeon in
India. Talk about scoring big.
HASHIM AMLA
SIMPLY THE BEST
Arguably the best cricketer in the world last year he topped the ODI and Test rankings of the International Cricket
Council in 2013 Hashim Amlas sporting career has been the stuff of legend. By age 21 he was captain of the KZN
Dolphins; at the same age, he became the rst South African of Indian descent to represent our country in international
cricket, where he soon anchored his spot in the national team and became third batsman. In 2009, Essex wanted him as
their overseas player in the off-season; he excelled in the UK, gaining an ever-growing legion of fans. Amla has smashed
several records, including being the only cricketer ever to score 1 000 runs in both Tests and ODIs in the same year
(2010); the rst South African to score a triple century (311 runs) in 2012; and bettering Sir Viv Richards world record
by achieving 4 000 runs in ODIs in the least number of games (81). AB de Villiers described him as the rock for us [the
team] and, ttingly, he was appointed as the Proteas new Test captain, guiding SA to two series wins. Despite his greatness,
which can often lead to an inated ego, Amla displays a Zen-like disposition on the eld, a true gentleman of the game. G
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