Koketso Moeti has a long background in civic activism and has over the years worked at the intersection of governance, communication, and citizen action. She has worked and consulted for a wide range of national and international organisations. In 2023 she was announced as an inaugural Keseb Democracy fellow. She is also a Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold fellow and an inaugural Collective Action in Tech fellow. Moeti is part of the inaugural cohort of Obama fellows; an Atlantic fellow for racial equity and an Aspen Institute New Voices senior fellow. Moeti serves as an expert Advisor to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution‘ initiative and is a founding reference group member for the Civic Tech Innovation Network.

She is an alumnus of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI) summer institute, hosted by the Sié Chéou-Kang Center at the University of Denver. When not working, Moeti can be found writing and has been published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Project Syndicate, City Press, NPR, Al Jazeera, Salon, The Guardian and Africa is a Country among others.

Johannesburg-born civic entrepreneur Paul has spent the last 12 years working on campaigns in South Africa and abroad, connecting people with tools to make a difference. Paul specialises in crowdfunding, digital campaigning, and strategy. He previously worked in the aid and development sector, where he helped run national advocacy campaigns on UN Millennium Development Goals and grassroots HIV/AIDS peer education programmes.

Tlou Seopa is a Senior Campaigner at amandla.mobi and a lead on economic justice campaigns.

With a journalism background, she is a firm believer in the power of accountability and justice. She takes an interest in social advocacy for women, as she believes that women are powerful and are more than capable of changing South Africa and the world for the better.

In 2022, Tlou was listed as one of the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans in the Politics and Government category. The award was due to her work on social grants campaigns, including one she led in 2020 during the height of COVID-19, demanding an increase in the Child Support Grant. She dedicates most of her spare time to reading and writing.

Palesa Ramolefo is a Campaigner at amandla.mobi and the lead on Health, GBV & Food Justice campaigns. 

A feminist thinker who moves by the belief that if the lives of black women in Africa are improved, then everyone else’s life is improved. She is a journalism graduate and believes in the power of storytelling and art as tools for social change. Palesa is a 2022 Sowetan Unsung Hero and 2019 amandla.mobi fellow.

Zintle Tyuku has a long background working for NGOs that use the media to educate and inform communities on health, school curriculum based and socio-economic issues. She has previously focused on messaging and creating narratives for HIV and AIDS programmes for radio. She has extensive experience in radio content production, script writing and managing various radio programmes. Her work included running social mobilisation programmes in communities through various workshops and training programmes. She is currently a Member Engagement Officer at amandla.mobi and has previously worked for organisations such as Tekano, Mindset Network, Soul City and more.

Thabisile Miya is passionate about using digital media for advocacy. Her activism was ignited during the #FeesMustFall era. The glaring lack of accountability and unwillingness to prioritise and advance black people demonstrated by the government pushed her towards working in civil society and being on the side of those who can hold government to account. Thabisile is a graduate of the amandla.mobi campaigner fellowship and is also part of the 2020 ASRI future leaders cohort. She has a media studies honours degree and hopes to further her studies in the media and gender space. Being at amandla has helped her further understand the deep-rooted inequalities Black women from low-income backgrounds face.