Nomzamo Mbatha on Shifting Paradigms

An actress and a businesswoman, Nomzamo Mbatha is also a staunch human rights activist. Since 2019, the South African has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and she has met with refugees and internally displaced people through her role. Mbatha told attendees at the TIME100 Davos Dinner that, through her own non-profit organization, the Nomzamo Lighthouse Foundation, she has been able to fund 10 South African students to attend top universities in the country to study STEM programs. There are tens of millions displaced globally, but Mbatha reminded: “The numbers have names, and the numbers have faces. If we change that narrative, we begin to shift the paradigm. … I hope that as we go through the concrete jungle of Davos this week, that we remember that every single number, every single statistic, translates to a person,” she said. Read more: https://time.com/collections/davos-2026/7346687/davos-dinner-damon-okonjo-iweala-lamm-mbatha/ Subscribe to TIME’s YouTube channel ►► http://ti.me/subscribe-time Subscribe to TIME: https://ti.me/3E3UCqt Get the day’s top headlines to your inbox, curated by TIME editors: https://ti.me/48dFNwQ Follow us: X (Twitter): https://ti.me/3xTVwSk Facebook: https://ti.me/3xWI2Fg Instagram: https://ti.me/3dO9Rcc