Empower women, change the nation
JOBURG - The City of Johannesburg’s inaugural five-day Women’s Entrepreneurship Week currently underway at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein is meant to 'give women in the city wings to fly'.
On the first day of the event, which forms part of the City’s National Women’s Month activities on 17 August, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development councillor Nonceba Molwele said, “It was only through getting women to be in control of their destiny that true empowerment could be achieved.
“Hundreds of women have registered for the City’s Young Women’s Programme in six regions. I want to see that number double by August next year so the City can reach out to as many women as possible. “It’s only through empowering women that we can accelerate economic transformation in the city, province and country.”
In a first for the City, budding women entrepreneurs will throughout the week debate five entrepreneurship-related issues, creative arts, construction, energy, health and professional services. Winners of each category will be announced at a prize-giving ceremony on 21 August.
Pilisiwe Twala-Tau, wife of Executive Mayor councillor Parks Tau, will deliver the keynote address ahead of the prizegiving ceremony.
