Palesa Mnyaka

At 33, Palesa Mnyaka is changing how Johannesburg remembers itself. As a cultural policy specialist and public heritage practitioner, she is using innovation to bring history out of archives and into everyday life, ensuring the city's stories are experienced by the communities they belong to. As manager of public culture in the City of Johannesburg's Directorate of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Mnyaka leads initiatives that place inclusion, dignity and historical justice at the heart of public...