Chance for African women to change the world
FOURWAYS – Fourways resident Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley has created the Real AfriCAN Women SA in order to create a space for women to change the country and continent.
Fourways resident Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley has created a space for women to support each other and improve society both in South Africa and across Africa.
Real AfriCAN Women SA was launched on 10 November last year at the Apartheid Museum and is part of AfriCAN Child Your Time Is Now (Pty) Ltd founded by Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley.
The company will focus on authentic and biblical servanthood and the need to serve each other to eradicate inequality and poverty on the continent.
Innovation Hub in Lynnwood, Pretoria hosted an event on 4 May where young and old gathered to take on the baton and become the change they want to see both in South Africa and across the continent.
“Our vision is to celebrate and honour ordinary women that are doing extraordinary things in their community and on the African continent. Our mission is to promote servanthood for the next generation of young women to celebrate,” explained Thyssen-Ambursley.
“We have selected 12 women from different industries that will be trained and upskilled to build a conglomerate by putting together their qualifications, skills, network and money in one pool to create collective wealth for their families, community, country and continent.”
On the day, 73-year-old stalwart Gogo Busisiwe Jiyane from Mamelodi came to support her granddaughter Nomsa Mokhele, a qualified chartered accountant who wants to become a partnering accountant entrepreneur to small businesses.
She wants to make a difference in accounting and wants to equip entrepreneurs with more skills than just accounting.
“‘[I] want to use [my] accounting knowledge to educate entrepreneurs holistically to manage their finances and also to grow solid businesses by imparting wisdom in managing their businesses,” Mokhele said.
Real AfriCAN Women hope to raise awareness of society, nature, culture, religion, myth, stories and the internal and external landscape as part of each one of us bearing wisdom to ignite our deepest potential.
“We as women need energy to heal, create and transform when we return to ourselves to help discover our reason of existence our true purpose,” Thyssen-Ambursley added.
“We need to start empowering from grass-root level, as touching the surfaces of real transformation has failed the progress of Africans dismally.”
Real AfriCAN Women SA has launched in Gauteng and will launch in Durban and Cape Town soon.
For more information, contact anthea@acytin.org.za or 084 602 4439.
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