+27: Social Innovators of South Africa

In the most violent township in South Africa, former pro basketball player and Red Bull Amaphiko Academy mentor Kita Thierry Matungulu is the director of Hoops4Hope, a foundation that teaches life skills by fostering a love for basketball.

Red Bull Amaphiko Mentor Gavin Weale is the founder and director of Live Magazine, a Cape Town-based organisation that gives young people aged 18-25 the chance to create a print publication and gain skills required for a potential media career.

Vincent Manzini co-founds iKasi Experience, a cultural market that showcases township-based music and products. As they expand their festival-style business, Vince and his partner encounter bureaucratic roadblocks but strong community support.

Red Bull Amaphiko Academy participant Jarrel Mathebula and his girlfriend Neo Sebete co-found an academy that gives dancers the chance to earn money doing what they love. But when their most successful squad leaves, they must rebuild the business.

Meghan Daniels is founder and creative director of the Ilizwi Photo Club, a project she founded while still in high school to enable young people from under-resourced communites to express themselves creatively through photography.

Cape Town musical icon DJ Ready D, a Red Bull Amaphiko Academy mentor, is the founder of the Great Cape Ambassadors Program (G-CAP), a grassroots organisation that uses hip-hop to inspire at-risk youth in his childhood neighbourhood, Mitchells Plain.