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Top retail group doubles support for gender empowerment awards

Written by Colleen Larsen | 26 September 2011

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Destiny empowers women in business

Written by Colleen Larsen | 26 September 2011

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Zamakhosi Mdletshe - South Africa

Written by Administrator | 26 September 2011

I am Zamakhosi Mdletshe (Khosi), Deputy Manager: BEE Operations at the Department of Economic Development and Tourism. I am responsible for Women Economic Empowerment. My qualifications are B.Admin and B.A. Honours from the University of Zululand. I have a certificate in Black Economic Empowerment from the University of Free State. My responsibilities include influencing government policies relating to Women and ensuring implementation thereof.

The ILO’s WEDGE-SA programme has improved my performance and has assisted in ensuring that annual skills training targets are met. The training tools have made the Departments implementation easy, especially as skills development is a major part of my work.

I attended the first ILO Training of Trainers of the WEA programme. I resolved to immediately roll out the training to Women Associations, such as Women in Construction, Women in Tourism as well as South African Women's Entreprenurs Network (SAWEN) members in KZN. Later I attended the Expand Your Business training programme. This was also rolled out to Women entrepreneurs in KwaZulu-Natal. I completed the Action My Growth and the Improve Your Exhibition Skills. The AMG has already been rolled out to Women Entrepreneurs. The roll out of EYB and IYES will be completed soon. In the last financial year we were able to train more than 135 women.

Working in partnership with ILO has brought professionalism in that their training programmes have been carefully thought-out and based on research undertaken.

Do women have an intrinsic value in the workplace and if so, what is it?

Written by Colleen Larsen | 29 September 2010

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Training focused on women entrepreneurs with disabilities

Written by Drikie Snyman | 07 September 2010

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In celebration of Women’s month Epilepsy SA hosted its first ever WED Programme in Cape Town during August 2010. The Capacity Building Seminar focused on women entrepreneurs with disabilities and was attended by 11 women and two men drawn from both the disability and commercial sectors.

The seminar programme created opportunities for participants to discover the gender elements inherent in entrepreneurship and skill them with new knowledge and techniques to advance the position of women entrepreneurs and especially those with disabilities.

The Programme content includes:

§ Gender and enterprise;

§ Markets and market access;

§ Business Development Services (BDS) for women entrepreneurs;

§ The enabling environment for WED;

§ Building associations and strategic alliances;

§ Gender issues and finance;

§ Assessing impact;

§ Action planning; and

§ 4 supplementary sessions (HIV/AIDS and women entrepreneurs, Women refugees and entrepreneurship, Women’s entrepreneurship and trafficking and Entrepreneurship development for women with disabilities.

We look forward to the roll-out of this programme by the 13 participants during the next six to twelve months.

This seminar also saw the official launch of Epilepsy South Africa’s Training Division. This Division will offer disability sensitization, entrepreneurship and soft skills training to the disability and non-profit sectors in addition to the corporate sector. Training/meeting facilities are also available at very reasonable prices.

For more information on the WED Programme, please contact Marina Clarke on (021) 595-4900 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .