21 ICONS - Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo: “I think acting is telling people stories, telling important stories and hoping to change people through stories.”
21 ICONS is a showcase for the South African spirit; a tribute to the men and women who have helped to shape our country and, indeed, our world. It featured it's final icon, Sandra Prinsloo, South Africa’s doyenne of the stage and screen.
In an intimate conversation with Steirn, Sandra Prinsloo talks about her life as a stage and screen actress, with a career spanning decades.
#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change
One of only four Gold Effies awarded last month at the ACA Effie Awards, the Volkswagen Night School: Rewriting the Rules of the Road campaign from Ogilvy is an example of how traditional marketing has changed, and how a campaign can bring about real societal change.
27 Nov 2025 13:07
#RAPT BizTrendsTV | Mongezi Mtati: Local is better
Kwa Coach in Klipspruit, Soweto, specialises in pork products. Although only in Soweto, it is known to Cape Town and Durban township residents, from social media and word of mouth.
25 Nov 2025 09:20
#NedbankIMC2025 | Melusi Mhlungu - "Are you playing to win, or not to lose?"
Melusi Mhlungu, We Are Bizarre's founder & chief creative officer, says all he has wanted to do in his career is be a sponge in the world and then come back to South Africa and wring out all that he has absorbed.
2 Oct 2025 12:14
#RAPT BizTrendsTV | Carmen Murray: The Analogue Renaissance – A return to real-world connection
A macro trend that has been gaining momentum since the pandemic is the Analogue Renaissance trend. A return to real-world connection and human-first experiences, this episode of RAPT BizTrends TV explores this trend with Carmen Murray, the founder of Carmen Murray Communications.
26 Aug 2025 11:09
RAPT BizTrendsTV: Heidi Patmore – Digital wallets: A gamechanger
This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on brands in a future where digital wallets are a gamechanger as the technologies of digital identity, crypto/blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) converge.
24 Jun 2025 09:30
RAPT BizTrendsTV: Musa Kalenga - How agentic AI is revolutioning business
This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.
29 Apr 2025 11:08
RAPT BizTrendsTV: Li Ndube on Afro-optimism - African growth vs Western degrowth
Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.
25 Feb 2025 13:47
#BizTrends 2025: Google's Alex Okosi – Africa, an opportunity more than a challenge
“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.
4 Feb 2025 14:32
Chris Botha on The MediaShop’s office move
22 Mar 2017 12:25
21 ICONS - Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo: “I think acting is telling people stories, telling important stories and hoping to change people through stories.”.
5 Jan 2015 10:23
21 ICONS - Taddy Blecher
Taddy Blecher: “When people are more educated and feel that they have more sense of self-worth and more value in terms of what’s inside them, they just naturally treat each other better. I think that kind of self-worth does lead to happiness, I don’t think it’s the only thing that creates happiness, but it definitely is a factor in societal happiness, on all metrics.”.
15 Dec 2014 09:29
21 ICONS - Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali: “A good book by itself, if it has the right messages in it, can change a person; his outlook, his persona, it can change a human being into something he never thought he could be. It can reinvent a person. That’s what a good book can do and it doesn't come through the efforts of other people, it comes from inside you.”.
8 Dec 2014 09:49
21 ICONS - Zanele Situ
Zanele Situ: “I feel happy and proud of myself that if I want something I push myself to do it, if I fall, I stand up again, this is how life is, there will be many times when you fall and you have to get up again.”.
1 Dec 2014 10:15
21 ICONS - Peter Magubane
Peter Magubane - “I used my camera as a gun. I did not want to carry a gun, and kill people. I used my camera as a weapon, and I think I was very successful.”.
24 Nov 2014 09:18
21 ICONS - Jill Farrant
Jill Farrant - “My life has been a series of near death experiences and resuscitations. I’ve had three almost fatal incidents and I've been able to, like my plants, resurrect, dry down, resurrect, and dry out again. I think the analogy goes one step further for me in that when you add a drop of water to those plants and they resurrect as for me, you have to add a drop of (holy) Spirit.”...
17 Nov 2014 10:54
