Momentum celebrates Alex women
ALEXANDRA – Women often accept the first offer because they are afraid that asking for more will get the offer retracted, says Luvvie Ajayi Jones.
This Woman’s Month, Momentum aired its third annual #SheOwnsHerSuccess virtual campaign, which aims to inspire women to seek success and also walk in the steps of those before them.
Alex women were also celebrated and one of them was the township’s most beloved legends, the late Constance Mngomezulu who died this year at the age of 79. She started off as a nurse working at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital before she was headhunted to work at Alexandra Community Clinic.
She went on to establish several organisations in Alex including Nokuthula Centre School for Children with Special Needs, now relocated from Alex to Lyndhurst. The other organisations she founded were Women for Peace, and Alex-Sankopano Resource and Community Centre, which have since become institutions of noble community work in this township.
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She also worked closely with Black Sash to help release political prisoners who had been arrested by the former apartheid government.
“Women are now looking to make their success unstoppable by networking with individuals and groups that have a deep understanding of their societal barriers while empowering them to make previously unimaginable advances in their lives,” said Charlotte Nsubuka-Mukasa, head of brand marketing at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings.
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Keynote speaker of the virtual event Luvvie Ajayi Jones, a New York Times bestselling author, spoke about building your brand, ensuring that when you are in a room, you are proud of whatever happens in that room because everything you do reflects your brand.
“When you are part of a project, you need to ensure that project is of the quality that you want people to associate with you,” she said. “If you do this, people will begin to trust that if you are involved with a project, it will have the same quality that they experienced from every other you’ve been involved in previously.”
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She said when you weren’t in the room, it would then be very easy for people to vouch for you because all they have experienced from you was quality.
She also spoke about never accepting the first salary figure that a potential employer offers you.
“Women often accept the first offer because they are afraid that asking for more will get the offer retracted. The truth is, the first offer is never the best, they have more money to give but they are just waiting for you to ask for it.”
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