Manka Sebastian and Bruce Jelley are both property development specialists, both UCT alumni, and both students of the UCT Graduate School of Business’s MCom in Development Finance programme.

This is a challenging topic for many people in organisations today.

Reabetswe Molapo started NPO Yung Heirz as a passion project after she dropped out of UCT feeling totally demoralised.

MBA alumna Diane Moalem holds a top job as Group Head of Operations at African tech organisation, ROAM Africa – which operates in six countries with 12 different brands– just eight years after entering the workforce.

Do you have brilliant idea that you keep putting off or just aren’t able to bring to fruition? Or maybe it’s a small task that never seems to get done?

Victoria McLachlan is the business optimisation director at Boulevard Hotels. She looks for areas of the business that need improvement. She tells Margaret Harris that she left a career in banking to join the family business.

Judith Middleton is the CEO and founder of public relations and marketing agency DUO. The wannabe farmer’s wife tells Margaret Harris that she first studied hotel management, but soon realised her passion lay in corporate communications.

Yolan Friedmann is CEO of the Endangered Wildlife Trust. She tells Margaret Harris that her work with the organisation began with volunteering because she has always been enthusiastic about worthy causes.

Gillian Lowndes is a partner at Lowndes Dlamini Attorneys. She tells Margaret Harris that as a young child she dreamt of becoming a ballerina, but from the age of 16 she knew she wanted to pursue a career in law.

David Jacobson manages the engineering and operations team at business technology delivery firm SYNAQ. However, he was once a hacker and tells Margaret Harris that he broke into Nasa’s systems.