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Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Recycles plastic shopping bags into solar powered schoolbags that charge up during the day and transform into a light at night. Thato Kgatlhanye launched her company when she was 18. As she was about to start her undergraduate degree, she came up with an idea to help underprivileged pupils who face challenges with their education. Rethaka – literally meaning “we are fellows” – encourages children to attend school and learn effectively.
Born and bred in Secunda in Mpumalanga, Milisa is the founder of Khula Lula, a private equity fund that focuses on creating access to micro-financing and scale for black female-owned tech startups. Milisa saw a gap in the market where black female-owned startups are often neglected in funding as a result of a lack of diversity in private equity funds.
Beverly Gumbi-Ngcongwane has built her company, Isivuno Containers, to craft exciting new offices, spaces, and homes from previously owned industrial shipping containers. Beverly Gumbi–Ngcongwane is a Durban-based businesswoman who is lauded as one of the pioneers in the container conversion space, where her company, Isivuno Containers, crafts new premises from existing shipping containers.
Led by a black woman in a period where discussions of reparations, decolonisation, race, and transformation have taken centre stage globally. However, instead of being given the space to lead, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has to deal with a sexist and racially tinged smear attack waged on national media platforms.
Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe is the founder and CEO of African Fashion International, as well as deputy chairperson and CEO of the Motsepe Foundation. She is a businesswoman and philanthropist who started her career in medicine.
International Women’s Day celebrates the “social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women” and serves as a “call to action for accelerating gender parity”. The theme for IWD2021 is “Choose to challenge”..
Nunu Ntshingila is Facebook’s Head of Africa, with responsibility for leading the team that engages with agencies and brands in Africa to help them make the most of the company’s products including Facebook itself, Instagram and related services.
27 August, the National Research Foundation (NRF), at its NRF Awards Ceremony in Port Elizabethhonoured a resident academic of Rhodes University’swith its Lifetime Achievement Award.
From corporate employment to social entrepreneurship and the boardrooms: bridging the gap between women and the economy. Wendy has a portfolio of interests and has been a social entrepreneur since 1991 after 10 years in corporate marketing. Her first business was in Human Resources Development to bridge the gap between management and employees to optimise performance.
This North West native’s interest in computer science started when she was still in high school in Rustenburg when she opted to take up IT as a subject even though she knew nothing about computers. After getting the feel of the subject, Sewagodimo Matlapeng, 21, eventually began teaching underprivileged children in the community of Phokeng how to code as well.
An energy consortium led by black women has donated over half a million rand to help pay fees for a group of National School of the Arts pupils who are facing financial challenges as a result of the Covid-19 national lockdown.