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Saturday, 2 December 2017
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Greetings,
A gentle reminder about our very important event that I have put together for Bhala Africa and AfroBotanics.
If you have not bought your ticket, please contact the numbers on the electronic flyers or go to Transmagnfic, Black Mamba or Bahle Gallery (Next to Solani’s in Town)
As we enter 16 days of activism this coming month of December, Bhala Africa, producers of reading and learning resources has teamed up with several women owned companies in the form of a leadership empowerment event, on 2nd December 2017 at Bahle Gallery, the former Indingiliza gallery on Dzeliwe street.
The event is a platform that has been conceptualised by Bhala Africa to bring women doing great things in their communities, together in “Mastering The Talent Of Your Business”. It is geared to inspire anyone who believes in the Timeline of the girl child, from when early child development phase all the way up to women who own businesses and Non-Profit organisations that perform at a global level.
Bhala Africa together Women of Crazy Wealth has diligently organised the upcoming event that will see the great line-up of women, tackle pertinent topics to be successful in business.
Bhala Africa is passionate about getting the African child to fall in love with reading because reading is the gateway to knowledge. When a child can read, they can read directions; instructions and they can perform well at school. All the ladies on the line up have very important stories, advises and best practices to share and the event is to show Swazi’s that we are capable of achieving anything we put our minds to.
Women of Crazy Wealth is a faith based young women’s network which offers a variety of services designed to develop the capacity of young women in business or women seeking to venture into the field of entrepreneurship between the ages of 18 to 35 such as, training in business skills, mentorship programs and many more.
These are all the brands and the networks that are part of this Joint Social Entrepreneurship Project with Bhala Africa, Women of Crazy Wealth, Women of Crazy Wealth, Black Mamba, Transmagnific, Kim Magagula (Independent HerbaLife Coach), Floewe Bahle Gallery and Yenziwe. There will be pop up shops from various brands such as Simply Products, Honey Child and Twee’s Closet. All of these are women owned in celebrating the TimeLine of the Girl Child, especially as we observe, globally, that Abuse and Domestic Violence is growing all around us.
This fundraiser is in support of assisting the girl child at all levels of they life’s journey and as such, proceeds will go to buying reusable menstrual cups. This event will see a new product being introduced to the Swazi Market and our broader strategy is to get businesses, corporates, the Public as well as Non-Governmental Organisations to get involved in this first campaign that has brought a pool of girl children together, to create awareness about the TimeLine of the girl child.
Bhala Africa has a 30 title children’s book series that is targeted at Grade R up to Grade 3 learners. We have seen great results when children read and are exposed to books and this is why we want girl children to stay abreast with reading and learning throughout all stages of the school life. The MINA Menstrual Cup can assist many girlchildren to not miss school days.
Our pledge around this particular installment of the “Mastering The Talent Of Your Business” is that for every MINA menstrual cup that we will fundraise for, the MINA Foundation will donate one. Our Call to Action to the Private and Public sector is for them to match us with each MINA Menstrual cup that we fundraise. Anyone interested please call Sindi Ntombini on 76999143. Together we can buy more of the menstrual cups that are E399.00 for one that lasts for 5 years and is bio-friendly and really great for the body in that there are less health risks involved even for women livening where water is a scarcity.
Two ladies gave testimony about the MINA Cup that they were diagnosed with an oestrogen related cancer and this for all women is the answer to a better health related risks because its made of medical silicon, which is way healthier that the materials that menstrual pads and tampons are made of.
The dignity that these menstrual cups will give the couple of hundred or thousands of school going girls will give, can keep them in school.
Empowering women has become the key element in the development of an economy. With women moving forward, the family moves, the community moves and the nation moves. Hence improving the status of women by the way of their economic empowerment is highly called for. Being the focal point of economic development, entrepreneurship plays an instrumental role in building Swaziland. This certainly helps in generating jobs and wealth creation, resulting into a state of well-being and increased opportunities in the country.
Against this backdrop and under the “Master Class” with the them “Mastering The Business Of Your Talent” for the growth of women owned enterprises particularly in Swaziland, I would like to introduce who we are and what we have to offer.
Herewith The Profiles of All The Speakers:
Host, Co-Organiser and Creator of The Mastering The Business of Your Talent Platform
Sindi Khathwane-Ntombini is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Bhala Africa.
The first children’s books to be published by Bhala Africa are a series called The Shenanigans of Mo and Mumu, created and published by her sister to encourage Africans to fall in love with reading.
Sindi is a writer and publisher, a Company she Co-Founded with her sister Ntombenhle Khathwane, CEO of Afrobotanics.
Under the Bhala Africa umbrella is a vernacular Children’s book series The Animal farm series.
Sindi is a 2015 Swaziland Beverage “Kick Start Entrepreneurial Competition Winner”, which she entered with the hope of expanding the Bhala Africa product line to include audio and interactive learning materials with the same characters from the Mo and Mumu series.
In 2015, Sindi was selected out of over 50 000 applicants from all over sub-Saharan Africa as a Mandela Washington Fellow (MWF) under Former President of America, Mr Barack Obama’s Young Africa Leadership initiative (YALI) and traveled to the United States for a 7 week programme that resulted in many lessons in best practices, the importance of collaboration and Africa’s development through partnerships.
2016, under Bhala Africa, she attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held at Silicon Valley wherein she was selected as one of 700 applicants selected globally.
Her travels to the US have given her the opportunity to meet the Former President of the United States of America Barack Obama, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, Penny Pritzker and many more. Despite a very busy professional life and rewarding role as a wife and mother of two (family being the biggest inspiration and support for her).
Sindi is committed to assisting the disadvantaged community. She has fully immersed herself in charity work by offering small donations and public relations skills to local organizations.
Together with Miliswa, a MWF, she is part of Impact Leaders which works to motivate, mentor, inspire and train young Swazis to be the best future leaders they can be and make a positive impact in their social spaces.
Contact Details: Mobile: (+268) 7699 9143 Email: syndi.khathwane@gmail.com
Host and Co-Organiser of The Mastering The Business of Your Talent Event
Sindie Dlamini a Swazi based entrepreneur, advocate for women empowerment, motivational speaker, proud mother of three children as well as the Founder and CEO of Women of Crazy Wealth.
Women of Crazy Wealth is a faith based young women's network which offers a wide variety of services designed to develop the capacity of young women in business or women seeking to venture into the field of entrepreneurship who are between the ages of 18 to 25 years.
These services include but are not limited to training in business skills, mentorship programs, networking, and events management. Through her business, Sindie has stood on various motivational speaking platforms such as the International day of the Girl child 2017, where she was invited by the Deputy Prime Minister's office under the Gender and Family Issues unit to motivate, draw from her personal success journey and speak words of encouragement to the youth present on the day.
She has not only stood on national speaking platforms but has stood before the South African Women and Youth league as a guest speaker at a Gala dinner held in commemoration of the success of their 55th Annual Conference. Sindie is not only passionate about positively impacting the lives of youths and women in Swaziland but she is as equally involved in being an ambassador of positive change within her community through the use of various speaking platforms awarded to her at her local church where she is currently serving and submitted under the headship of Prophet Ntsandvoyenkhosi and Pastor Zandi Simelane of Mountain of Change Ministries International.
Living by her personal motto and standards being "giving is living" Sindie has recently joined hands with Mina Foundation, a South African based organization making its mark in keeping the girl child in school through various fundraising initiatives and the distribution of menstrual cups to adolescent girls in schools and poverty stricken communities. Sindie is at the forefront in advocating for the pilot of this great initiative to the benefit of young girls in Swaziland’s schools and communities. Contacts Details: Mobile: (+268) 7648 5489 Email: wcw.swaziland@gmail.com
Keynote Speaker and Sponsor
Nombenhle Khatwane is the CEO and Founder AfroBotanics, a natural hair and body care manufacturer available in over 300 Game, Clicks and Pick n pay stores across South Africa and also in 8 other African countries.
Her AfroBotanics slogan is “My Own kind of Beautiful” because AfroBotanics is challenging the traditional notion of beauty to make it more inclusive, that all kinds of different people are equally beautiful.
She uses AfroBotanics to give African Women the option to wear their hair natural and that is beautiful as straight hair, AfroBotanics is an empowerment platform for African Women to remember and regain their power and act on it as she is in building AfroBotanics.
AfroBotanics is successfully challenging and competing with international brands in premium mass segment and Ntombenhle attributes his to the African authenticity of her brand. As the leading South African natural hair brand, AfroBotanics has earned Ntombenhle recognition such as:
100 most influential people of African Descent (MIPAD)
Destiny Magazine 2017 Power of 40
Forbes 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneur in Africa 2016
SABC 3 Standard Bank Think Big Competition 2nd Place Winner - 2016
Investec Young Treps 2015
M & G 200 Young South African 2015
Arch Tutu AFLI Fellow 2014
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women 2012
Email: ntombenhle@afro-botanics.com
Guest-speaker and Sponsor
Claudia Castellanos Roques is a passionate foodpreneur based in Swaziland creating a taste sensation with her gourmet chilli brand Black Mamba, which was launched with a few bottles of chilli sauce at a local arts festival in 2010.
The business went from employing one woman stirring a pot on her patio, to having its own workshop, and today, a FSSC22000-certified factory. Claudia’s driving force is “be the change you want to see in the world” and she has translated her love for improving the quality of life of rural communities and protecting the environment into the main strategies of her business. Black Mamba works with small farmers that are trained in permaculture techniques and provide the business with organically grown ingredients that are paid at agreed prices.
The majority of the growers are women, who grow delicious fresh chillies in their own gardens – earning a fair income without having to leave their children, grandchildren or communities. Claudia believes that empowering women while caring for the environment is the most powerful way to progress nations, reduce poverty and improve outcomes for the next generation. Doing it while developing a great African brand only adds to the fun.
Guest-speaker and Sponsor
Miliswa Mamba is a young Christian Swazi woman, mother, wife and the Managing Director and Founder of SiyeSwatini TransMagnific, pioneering the pre-booked shuttle service industry in Swaziland.
TransMagnific created an option for travellers who understand that travel is not just about a vehicle but ensuring safety, comfort and reliability, while providing convenience and efficiency.
TransMagnific ensures that the controls, professional systems and processes that the African taxi industry ignores, are implemented so that getting from point A to B is not based on luck. Miliswa serves on various boards both in business (including, a successful niche fashion and sneaker and retail company in South Africa) and as a board member of numerous social projects, for example:
Kwakha Indvodza which is male mentoring program for young Swazi men.
Impact Leaders which works to motivate, mentor, inspire and train young Swazis to be the best future leaders they can be and make a positive impact in their social spaces.
Afrika Freedom Climbers, an initiative focused on mountaineering as a sport for black people and intends to have the first black woman to ever summit Mount Everest.
Recently she became the Africa Director for a project supported by the American Presidency titled Emandla Emculo which uses power of music build, motivate, and educate young people.
In 2006, she won the first Believe Begin Become competition for best Tourism Business idea. Miliswa was selected as a Young African Leader by President Barack Obama’s African initiative, where she spent time in the USA learning more about International Tourism, Business, working at the Boston World Trade Centre and meeting President Obama.
In 2016 Miliswa was selected as one of Business Women from across world for Vital Voices, an international program for established successful business women who are growing their businesses.
Last month she received an award after the public nominations for Swaziland Young Innovative Leader and SiyeSwatini TransMagnific won the 2017 Swaziland Service Excellence Award for best in the industry. Her favourite award though, is her “Mom of the Year” award from the three people closest to her heart.
Guest-speaker and Sponsor
Kim is a doting wife and mother to two young children. A passionate litigation attorney for the Government of Swaziland, the President of Swaziland Judo federation and Herbalife Health Coach.
Her drive has recently earned her the position of Treasurer of the SADC Judo Confederation. She has, however, always been a health fanatic, from running on the spot in high school when she wouldn’t be allowed to take the road for her own safety; to training all through both her pregnancies.
Having keenly sought to keep her family as healthy as possible, she introduced green smoothies to her husband and children but was very wary of all the chemicals that go into agriculture and wondered whether she was not inadvertently poisoning the people she loves so dearly.
Having suffered personal tragedies, Kim found herself turning to unhealthy measures and out of desperation she embarked on a mission to curb the weight gain as none of her previous methods yielded satisfactory results.
She found a Herbalife Health Coach and was simply enthralled by the way she felt that weight loss became a secondary goal! Her love for the products shone through everyone who listened to her such that the business opportunity was inevitable.
In the last year, Kim has honed her product knowledge, attended training seminars and developed herself as an ardent coach. She has had 100% success rate with all her clients and has gained herself a residual income that is more than half of her salary she receives as an attorney.
Typical her altruistic nature, Kim is excited to teach others to make the world healthier and happier while gaining financial freedom and earnestly believes that there is enough for everyone to go around.
Guest-speaker and Performance
Floewe is recognised as one of Swaziland’s gifted female vocalists and song writers, MTN SWAMA Nominee and NACA award winner, Floewe has made her presence known through her music. She currently has an album titled “Mayibuye” which she defines as her musical journey. Songs like Lomastemba and Moya have topped the local raid charts as well.
She has been in the industry for over a decade, the sultry singer is definitely not shy in addressing social issues through her songs namely, gender based violence and women empowerment.
Floewe has performed at much acclaimed festivals in Swaziland and Mozambique namely, the MTN bushfire festival and the AZGO (fire fest route) respectively. The Swazi-soul artist has showcased at the MNOSHITO music conference in South Africa held annually and boasts of hosting the likes of Vusi Nova, Letta Mbuli, Thandiswa Mazwai to name a few.
Floewe has also collaborated on stage with Grammy award winning female act Sweet Honey in the Rock (USA), Toni Blackman (USA) in South Africa namely, Selaelo Selota, Siphokazi Maraqana, Simphiwe Dana, Zano and Berita. The talented artist recently scooped two awards at the national arts council awards namely the best Afro-Jazz artist of the year and best album of the year, proving she is a force to be reckoned with in the industry.
Guest-speaker
Businesswoman, Social Entrepreneur and Founding member of the Mina Foundation and Vibe Marketing Pty Limited. From humble beginnings and working from the back seat of her car for a few years Zaakira began Vibe Marketing which has grown into a successful marketing and branding company over the years. Zaakira takes the time to understand situations and almost always finds plausible and workable solutions through her experiences and insights. This is evident in her latest venture through her NPO Mina Foundation which provides Mina which is a product designed to ensure that teenage girls at school are given the opportunity to rise above their circumstances. She shares her vision together with two friends whom she invited to join her on this amazing journey. This drive is all about uplifting a girl child and encouraging them to stay in school and Mina is a major contributing factor. Her enthusiasm, passion and drive to bring this idea to fruition are admirable and commendable.
Performance
Yenziwe
Guest-speaker
Gugulami Msezane is the Managing Director of Khumo Ya Lefatsi (Pty) Ltd and Head of Business Management of Likwindla Investment Corporation (Pty) Ltd. She was recently awarded the Vita Basali Award as outstanding Youth Philanthropist in 2015 by the Honourable Ntombi Lentheng Mekwe of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
Gugulami serves her community serves her community selflessly, she is best described her peers as a strong black woman who has outstanding leadership qualities and excellent people skills. Gugulami holds a certificate in tourism which enhanced her knowledge in understanding the market broadly and also holds a Diploma in IT which has gained her a lot of technical support and customer service experience.
With both qualification sin hand, she then ventured into sales where she speedily achieved executive positions that exposed her to diverse market groups and people of different backgrounds.
As an aspiring young business woman, she made it to the top 20 SAB Kick Start Youth Entrepreneurs in 2008 in the Gauteng region and received certification for the Business Skills Development acquired in the program. She was selected to be part of the Y-AGE program which develops young entrepreneurs and unleashed her love for enterprise development.
During her journey of entrepreneurship, she experienced a lot of challenges in trading from country to country, which encouraged her to further her studies in SMME Export where she obtained certification with the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce. Gugulami is no stranger to the NPO sector either as she was once the Director of Corporate Communications for Global People Empowerment which focuses on the development of youth in a bid to groom young global leaders.
Her duties included but are not limited to: communication with investors, community, suppliers and media. Gugulami has served as the Global Deputy HoD of the mentorship and coaching program as well as the local Chairperson of the Global Business Roundtable (GBR) Meadowlands Branch which focuses on: Spiritual development, Business Development and opportunities, Financial Development (wealth creation and estate planning) Relationship development to name but a few.
I have also added some news reports about the MINA Cup:
Johannesburg - Socks stuffed with sand, pieces of bark and old rags are all stand-ins for thousands of South African girls who can’t afford sanitary pads and tampons.
Despite years of campaigns to distribute free tampons and pads, an estimated one in three girls miss up to five days of school a month because they can’t afford sanitary products.
Now a new campaign run by Transnet’s Teenage Health Programme is distributing for free a new product - a menstrual cup designed specifically for teenagers - to thousands of schoolgirls.
Loren Loubser, one of three women who runs the programme in the Western Cape, says free sanitary pad campaigns are not sustainable.
“The girls are dependent on someone coming in with pads they use tampons or sanitary pads for longer than they should and that it’s unhygienic and uncomfortable,” Loubser said.
She hopes the distribution of the menstrual cup will be a solution. A menstrual cup is a small and soft reusable silicone cup that can last up to five years. It can be cleaned with toilet paper until the end of each period when a small amount of boiling water is needed for sterilisation.
Transnet is handing out 10 000 menstrual cups called “Mina”.
“Menstruation is a taboo topic, but it’s part of our normal bodily function, so Mina is designed specifically for young girls,” said Mina co-founder and spokeswoman Dr Mashadi Motlana.
Loubser and her team reach out to rural schoolgirls through workshops focused on empowerment and self-love. The menstrual cup is handed out along with a journal and a “dignity bag” with beauty supplies, toiletries and school supplies.
The girls are given instruction on how to use the Mina, the Zulu word for “mine”.
“We’ve seen an overwhelmingly positive reaction to Mina,” said Motlana.”It’s something that women choose - it’s not just something for poor girls.”
The educational initiative has three sessions. By the end of the sessions, almost all the girls were using the cup, said Zaakira.
“So many of these girls are living with granny and on grants, and Mina can change their lives for the better,” said Mahomed.
“Mina helps the young girls stay away from men with money, and it is a step towards breaking the cycle of poverty.”
Kate Paterson, an attorney for Section 27, says that sanitation systems at rural schools are so dangerous that girls may skip school even if they have pads and tampons.
Paterson said that rural school toilets are on average 50 to 100 metres away from classrooms, where they are unsupervised, frequently vandalised and the sites of assaults and rapes.
“Learners report not feeling safe going to the toilet, fears disproportionately (felt) by girls,” Paterson said.
“Girls need to use the toilets more often than boys. During their periods, many would rather miss school than be forced to use the toilets more frequently, even if they have access to sanitary wear.”
Because a menstrual cup needs to be changed only once every eight to 12 hours, Paterson said she believes it would be “extraordinarily helpful” in keeping girls from needing to use the toilet at school.
And while home toilets are frequently also unsafe, pupils are more likely to have toilet paper at home and access to a cleaner toilet used by fewer people.
Despite some of the benefits, Mina has struggled to see wide adoption, particularly in areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
“In rural schools, cups haven’t been received so well because of traditional cultural values, especially those around virginity,” said Prudence Mabele, the director of the non-profit Positive Women’s Network (PWN), which has partnered with Mina.
“Many girls are not comfortable putting anything inside them,” said Mabele.
For these girls, the PWN suggests a reusable pad called Subz which can attach to underwear. The pad can last for three years, and requires soap and water to be cleaned.
“The menstrual cup is not a panacea. We’re not saying this is the only solution, but women should have choices,” said Motlana.
Mina is also supporting the campaign to remove VAT from sanitary products.
On May 27, the Mina cup will be officially launching to the public, in time for Menstrual Hygiene Day on May 28.
Julia Clark - Riddell
I first saw a menstrual cup when I was aged 12.
I was walking through a grocery store back in the US with my mother, who was showing me what sanitary products to use when I got my period. Unbleached, organic cotton tampons were best, she said.
“But the real natural women use menstrual cups,” my mother said, pointing to a small plastic-looking cup in a cardboard box. I always considered my mother to be an earth-worshipping, body-loving woman, so I asked her if she used one. “No, they’re too gross,” she said.
“I would never go that far.”
The thought of a menstrual cup also made me squeamish, so I avoided menstrual cups. I spent the next eight years struggling to manage my period. I would always forget to bring extra tampons to school with me, and then panic and ask all my female classmates to loan me theirs. I brought sweatshirts to tie around my waist if any blood leaked through. I dreaded the shame of any boy knowing what was happening with my body.
And then one day last year my friend told me she had just started using a menstrual cup. She said it was better than anything she’d ever tried. I heard my mother’s voice echo in the back of my head, but I shoved it down, marched out to a health shop and bought my own.
I’ve been using a menstrual cup for over a year now, and I love it. Now, I have a period experience that is so comfortable that I sometimes forget that I am menstruating. I no longer have to spend money on products that clog landfills and put harmful chemicals in my body. I feel as if I might even know what it is like to be a man - never sidelined by some monthly wave, crashing over my social and professional obligations like a derailed train on schedule.
But I am lucky. I am a white woman from an upper middle-class American family. I could choose to buy the menstrual cup for myself in a shop round the corner from my house. I could comfortably use it because I never had to worry about access to a clean and private bathroom. I could ignore the few small instances of judgment from my peers and even my mother. I could go back to tampons and pads any time I wanted.
A menstrual cup made 22 percent of my days on this planet more enjoyable and more carefree. Not every woman is comfortable with menstrual cups, but every woman should have the opportunities and the resources to welcome their period without dread. The “Mina cup” is a plastic cup-like device used by woman during their menstrual cycle.
It works as a substitute for tampons and sanitary pads. It is reusable and can last for up to five years.
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