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18 South Africans of Indian descent feature in the latest edition of the Mail and Guardian’s prestigious annual ‘200 Young South Africans’ list of leaders in artificial intelligence, fighting organized crime and health innovation.
Barusha Partap, 35, in the Film & Media category cited India as her motivation to work for a number of marketing firms across the African continent.
“I often share this story about traveling to India, looking for a billboard, and for the first time, seeing an Indian woman on a billboard. In that moment, such awe and deep understanding of the importance of representation and inclusion struck me.”
Simi Aref, 35, was also in the Film & Media category for being part of the African Union Fellowship, through which he interacts with talented people on the continent to find new spaces, voices and stories to share via the medium of podcasting.
In the arts and entertainment category, Kiveshan Jives Thumbiran, 29, has been identified as paving the way for the South African-born Indian diaspora to participate in the South African arts scene through his education as a lecturer as well as his work as a practitioner. artist.
Five out of 18 were commended for their work in the Technology and Innovation category.
Nabil Sidat, 28, is an AI expert who built tools to improve the security and reliability of AI tools to help clinicians make better decisions.
He also developed an affordable robotic prosthetic hand for amputees. Sedat said South Africa should be at the forefront of developing AI and not just consumers.
Avashlin Moodley, 32, is a lead specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He is the organizer of the Deep Learning IndabaX South Africa event, which aims to develop machine learning and artificial intelligence skills in South Africa.
He was the product owner responsible for launching the first chatbot in Zulu, the most spoken indigenous language in the country.
The research by Purnima Rampurun, 32, has generated four patents in South Africa, the US, Europe and China for her innovations in artificial peripheral nerve repair, which eliminates the need for donor tissue and has been hailed as a game-changing development for the patient. Recovery.
Zubaida Dawood is 33 years old, and she is a specialist in the field of cybersecurity and a research group leader at the Information and Cybersecurity Center of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council.
She wants to address the shortage of e-skills to boost the economy and transform the lives of the underprivileged in South Africa.
Janesh Ganda’s thesis, 33, assessed how rugby training load data can be used to reduce injury rates and better understand injury prevention.
The Education category included Rokshana Parker, 30, for her extensive research on organized crime in South Africa, which focused on drugs, gangs and assassinations. Her research was also presented at the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention.
Karthi Pillai, 34, the first non-Catholic principal at Acudeo College in Soshanguve is also named in the Education category, as is Rishen Roopchund, 32, a peer reviewer for international journals and the International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology.
Featured in the Entrepreneurship category, Kiara Ramklas, 28, is the founder and director of Marimba Jam, a social enterprise focused on closing gaps in South African education inequality by increasing access to African music education programmes.
As a 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow, Kiara plans to replicate the Marimba Jam Center model in South African cities and expand into the rest of Africa. The other nominee in this category was Leslie Brenton Naidoo, 27, CEO of Brengen Energy.
He is also the youngest South African to hold a wholesale fuel licence, and owns a petroleum company. Naidu said we have a large group of individuals who are focused on achieving the goal of taking on the roles of major oil companies to bring in fuel at a lower rate and supply to end users including mines, farmers and truck stops.
In the health category, Omishka Hirasund, 27, was cited for her work with #KeReady, a free healthcare initiative for young people where mobile units go to underdeveloped rural areas to boost primary healthcare.
She is joined by Tasneem Hasim, 32, a psychiatrist who is credited with developing the first set of guidelines for online mental health screening both locally and internationally.
Other youngsters of Indian origin include Jaimeen Patel, 26, in the Justice category and Ibrahim Lambat, 34, in the Sports category.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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