Standard Bank celebrates gender empowerment in business and government

[TeamSouthAfrica]

It’s Women’s Month and Standard Bank will certainly be singing the praise of women at The Standard Bank SA Top Women Awards!

The awards ceremony, to be hosted on the 6^th of August 2015 at Emperors Palace, is the country’s biggest and most prestigious women empowerment awards. 

It honours women changing the face of business in South Africa along with the companies and government organisations that are positively shaping the role of women in business.

Nominees are rewarded for their outstanding and inspirational leadership, vision and innovation in empowering women in both the public and private sectors.

The nominees range from CEOs, executives, leaders in corporate to SMMEs, government agencies as well as entrepreneurs.

Now in its 12^th year, the awards initiative not only actively supports the cause of gender empowerment but is also a platform for female professionals to network with one another, profile themselves and research and promote gender empowerment issues in their own industries.

Standard Bank SA is passionate about supporting gender empowerment and seeing women make real progress in business. Winners and finalists of previous years have not only earned the respect of industry peers but have also established themselves as leaders in best practice initiatives that support and address South Africa’s socio-economic development.

In 2014 Nonkululeko Gobodo, Chairperson of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, Southern Africa’s largest black owned accounting firm, was  recognised as the Top Businesswoman of the Year. SizweNtsalubaGobodo also took top honours as the Top Gender Empowered Company: Financial Award. 

This year’s contenders for Top Businesswoman of the Year include:

PPC CEMENT – Busi Legodi
ASPEN PHARMA – Lorraine Hill
SUPERTECH DURBAN – Farida Tayob
BUSINESS CONNEXION – Vanessa Olver
TRANSMAN – Angela Dick
HAVAS WORLDWIDE – Lynn Madeley
HIRSCH’S – Margaret Grant-Hirsch
ICT-WORKS – Xoliswa Kakana
CTICC – Julie-May Ellingson

To see more of the SA Top Woman Award 2015 nominations list, go to http://topwomenawards.co.za/2015-finalists/