HUMHR Career Insights

Most people cross a border chasing opportunity. Jonathan Thompson crossed one to build it. He grew up poor in America, selling door to door at eleven to pay his own way. He trained as a minister, married a Zimbabwean, and moved to Chipinge in 1999 to pastor a church and work with an orphanage. He stayed through the land invasions and the hyperinflation. Then in his forties, in a city he had only just moved to, he wrote real estate exams by hand and started his career over. Today he runs Thomps

From Makokoba, Bulawayo to the Comrades Marathon podium. Nobukhosi ”Buhle” Tshuma crawled at Two Oceans. Two months later she made history. The first black woman on the Comrades Up Run podium in 105 years. Her full story, right here

She wrote her first novel at 13. One handwritten copy, passed around her class at Girls' College - and nobody ever lost it. Fourteen years after self-publishing The Polygamist, it became a Netflix series - number one in 16 countries around the world. In this episode of HUMHR Career Insights, Batje Chibafa sits down with Sue Nyathi in Johannesburg - the first stop on the Africa Across Borders Tour 2026. They talked about: - Writing by night while building a 20-year career in finance - T

For the Season 4 finale, Batje Chibafa sits down with a guest unlike any she has had before. No flight to catch, no green room. Her guest is Claude, Anthropic's AI. They talk about whether AI is coming for your job, what it means for humanitarian careers, why entrepreneurship is not the answer for everyone, the recruiter double standard, and the question that stopped the whole conversation: Is AI even made for Africa? Claude also reflects on Season 4, shares its favourite episode, and answers

172 job applications. 3 responses. I shared that story and the comments came flooding in — not with surprise, but with recognition. Same story. Different country. Different industry. Same silence. In Batje’s Take #13, Batje Chibafa, Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of HUMHR, makes the case that trust in recruitment is broken — and that the Applicant Tracking System is at the centre of it. Not because it manages volume, but because it removes the human from the most important momen

Be a Pioneer. Be a Weed. | Part 2 | Elizabeth Mhangami Be a pioneer. Be a weed. Weeds survive where other plants cannot. Dandelions are food. Being a weed is not a consolation — it is a strategy. In Part 2, Elizabeth Mhangami, Principal Consultant at NDISU and founder of Vanavevhu (V² Enterprises), joins Batje Chibafa in studio for a conversation about building a career on your own terms. They go deep on entrepreneurship as a deliberate identity, what donor consulting actually looks like in prac