Category: "Women in business"
Celebrating Women 20 Years On
Last year, Maria Ramos ranked in 14th place on Fortune Magazine’s list of the global Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. As CEO of Transnet, she had led the parastatal through a successful restructuring process and helped grow the company’s profits by 15%.
However, it wasn’t that long ago that women were still struggling to [...]
Building a diverse construction industry
by Michelle Hardy-Berrington and Ed Richardson
Opportunities for women to engage in the housing and construction sectors are greater now than ever. Government has played a key role in opening the doors for women and “encouraging their participation in all aspects of the economy, including construction,” says Khuthaza, a non-profit organisation dedicated to driving the empowerment [...]
Women in leadership
by Les Holbrook
Executive Director
The Border-Kei Chamber of Business believes that specific focus on Women in Business provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on the role women play in the economy and a useful barometer is the annual Nedbank Women in Corporate Leadership Census.
We are also proud to announce that the inaugural South African Chamber of [...]
Prominent Women from the Eastern Cape
Throughout the Eastern Cape’s history, women have made, and continue to make, significant inroads in all sectors of society, from politics, through to the arts and social reform. Let’s explore and celebrate some of these well-known and lesser-known women, past and present, who hail from this colourful Province.
Politics
Then: Molly Blackburn, fighter for the underdog
Born in [...]
Are women in business still an issue?
The 2006 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, an annual report which gauges the entrepreneurial activity in emerging economies around the world, has revealed that in South Africa, women entrepreneurs outnumber male entrepreneurs.
Specifically, black women featured strongly in this report, despite low education
levels. Women in business are not such an anomaly after all. At least not factually, that [...]
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