It's not often you attend an awards event where the recipient of the Lifetime Award breaks out into song. But this is exactly what happened at the Standard Bank Top Women Awards, when the legendary Yvonne Chaka Chaka was recognised for her lifetime commitment to women's empowerment.
Danette Breitenbach 2 days ago
Did you know that 66% of the world's work is done by women and 50% of the food produced globally is by women? Yet women only earn 10% of the world's income, only own one percent of the world's property and lead in less than 10% of the world's 196 countries. For gender equality to be achieved by 2030, women will have to overcome many challenges.
Danette Breitenbach 2 days ago
“The power of women is that if you empower one, others will follow. If we work together, we will rise and lift others with us. This is the responsibility that the 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 gave us.”
Danette Breitenbach 2 days ago
Welcome to Loeries Creative Week Durban! With #WomensMonth also in full swing, I caught up with regional judge Chrisna Basson, head of strategy at Weathermen & Co in Namibia. She shares that a more inclusive world won't happen by itself.
Leigh Andrews 15 Aug 2017
As sub-Saharan Africa's climate changes, small-scale farmers are increasingly looking to innovative ways of dealing with agricultural challenges. And in some instances, the techniques they adopt are helping to combat climate change, too.
15 Aug 2017
Since 2010 The Clothing Bank has been using excess stock donated by South Africa's largest clothing retailers and manufacturers to transform the lives of unemployed mothers trapped in a cycle of poverty. The donated clothing is used to provide these women with income-generating opportunities, and the two-year programme is backed-up with intensive personal support along with personal finance, computer, and business training.
15 Aug 2017
The money set aside by Anglo American and Gold Fields to pay out former miners sick with silicosis and TB may be a bargain for shareholders.
Pete Lewis/GroundUp 15 Aug 2017
The conventional view is that insecurity of land tenure results from the lack of a registered title deed which records the property rights of occupants of land or housing. Across Africa, many governments and international development agencies are promoting large-scale land titling as the solution.
Ben Cousins 15 Aug 2017
Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Enver Surty, says every South African school will be digitally connected by 2018.
Kaelo Engage 14 Aug 2017
Ever wondered if your experiences in the mobile ad-tech space are markedly different from those of females from the other end of the globe? Wonder no more - Australia-based Nicole Liebmann, head of mobile for Exponential Interactive and SA's own Candice Goodman managing director of Mobitainment, share their thoughts, tips and techniques below.
Leigh Andrews 14 Aug 2017
Township trade magazine Spotong is celebrating Women's Month by hosting its annual Women in Business event on 24 August in Orlando, Soweto.
14 Aug 2017
A female duo is taking on the world of foreign exchange by becoming game-changers in this male-dominated field. Both under 30 years old, Paballo Nkwe and Danielle Lester, owners of iSelect Wealth, train individuals, companies and start-ups on how to trade in stock markets around the world, in the name of empowerment, wealth creation and independence.
Tivania Moodley 14 Aug 2017
Mining companies need to create a social grant system for workers they retrench when a mine suspends operations. Responding to news that the Bokoni platinum mine in Limpopo has been placed in a two-year period of care and maintenance to regain its financial strength, the Bench Marks Foundation said that responsibility to workers and communities does not end there.
14 Aug 2017
