Rashiq Fataar

Rashiq Fataar is the founder, Editor in Chief and Managing Director of Future Cape Town, a social media movement and urban consultancy. He is also an Actuarial Specialist at one of the largest insurance firms in South Africa. He graduated from the University in Cape Town in 2008, with a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Actuarial Science with additional majors in Economics and Finance. Rashiq is passionate about cities, urban economic development, inspirational spaces and exploring the world - its people, landscapes and the next best urban ideas.

• Future Cape Town
• Siemens Future Influencers Think Tank
• DA Young Leaders Programme
• Co-Founder of City Talk
• Panelist: Name Your Hood

What I am working on:

• Video: Producer of the The Liveable CiTy video project
• High Street Mfuleni Project
• Hangberg Playground Concept

Works

• Social Media Consultant: Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week
• Panelist: MyCiTi Mascot
• Writing: Stop praying at the altar of the past (Op-ed in The Cape Argus)
• Writing: Demolising the aspirations of a Democratic Architecture (Mahala Magazine)
• Photography: World View - Surprising Shanghai (Mobility Magazine)

Media

• Television: Future Cities Interview on The Tech Report
• Portration of a Nation: photographed by Andrew Brauteseth
• Interview: Future Cape Town - a suture for a city with many sides (Creative Cape Town)