TECHNO-SAVVY
BUSINESSWOMEN TO BE HONOURED IN MPUMALANGA
The Department
of Small Business Development, in partnership with the Mpumalanga Department of
Economic Development and Tourism will host the 2014 Technology for Women in
Business Awards (TWIB) ceremony at the Church on the Hill Conference Centre in
Nelspruit on 30 October 2014.
The TWIB Awards recognises women
achievers for their zeal in employing cutting-edge
technologies with potential to radically transform their businesses and propel
them into mainstream economy. The annual event has seen creative businesswomen
innovate forward-looking devices and developing effective systems and processes
that significantly impact their businesses and increases efficiency.
The Deputy Minister of Small
Business Development, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe says the TWIB programme was
designed to assist women entrepreneurs access the applied science and
technology required to catapult their businesses into the big league, and
assist them to harness technology in order to enable them to make the
progression into the mainstream economy.
“This year’s awards themed “Twenty Years of Democracy,
Moving Women’s Agenda Forward through Technology" will be contested over three
categories, namely the small business, very small, and
micro-business categories,” says Thabethe.
The overall
winner will take home a non-financial Small Enterprise Development Agency
(Seda) Technology transfer intervention worth R600 000, the Black Business
Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP) incentive worth R200 000 and a trip to
the 2015 Global Summit for Women in Brazil
The following
finalists were announced by Deputy Minister Thabethe at a function in Nelspruit
early this month:
Small
Business Category
Phindile
Machweu of Sasamela Trading Enterprise and
Projects (Limpopo )
Shammen
Kumandan of Washtub Industrial Laundry services (Western Cape
Very
Small Category
Thembisile
Sithole of G and T Auto Body (Gauteng
Dudu Mofokeng
of Legac’I Dry Cleaners and Laundry Services (Gauteng
Micro-business
Category
Tsholofelo
Majeng of Maiktronix (Northern Cape
Khaya Cokoto of
X Spark Design and Advertising (Eastern
Cape
The awards
ceremony will be preceded by a Women Entrepreneurs Network Conference that will
be hosted earlier in the day at the same venue.
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