The Mail & Guardian has announced its annual 200 Young South Africans list on Friday, 10 September 2020, in which a number of the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) staff, students and alumni (under the age of 35) are recognised amongst the country’s trailblazers.

The Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans list has been taking place annually since 2006 and this year over 8,000 nominations were received for candidates across 12 categories.

The following UJ students, alumni and staff feature on the 2020 list:

​	​ Arts & Entertainment Sinethemba Twalo, 35 Artist and Curator, NGO – Nothing Gets Organised
Environment​ Dr Simone Dahms-Verster, 28 Assistant Lecturer: UJ Department of Zoology	​
​ Environment Dr Sasha Hoffmann, 32 Postdoctoral Fellow: UJ’s Department of Zoology
	​ Education Charmaine Maphutha, 26 Educator and philanthropist: Bopedi Hope Foundation
​	​ Education Nkhensani Mogale, 34 Former part-time lecturer at UJ
​	​ Education Wilson Tsakane Mongwe, 29 Front office quantitative analyst: Standard Bank
​	​ Education Thandokazi Maseti, 30 Lecturer and PhD candidate: UJ Department of Psychology
​ Film & Media Allegro Dinkwanyane, 30 Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Founder and chief executive: Orgella Group	​
	​ Science & Technology Stephanie Baker, 33 Palaeo-Anthropologist Researcher and Principal Investigator: Drimolen Homonin site