By: Natasha Archary   When she’s not hosting Kaya Bizz, facilitating business forums or jetting off throughout Africa on business conferences, Gugulethu Mfuphi is a feisty role-model for young women. Changing the face of business talk in the country, she understands the male-dominated industry better than most triple her age and she’s not about to tone down.   More to …

Faith Khanyile is the CEO and founding member of WDB Investment Holdings (WDBIH), a strategic transformational investor founded and led by women. She has been associated with WDB for over 20 years. Faith is responsible for strategy formulation and execution, people management and leadership, sourcing of investments, stakeholder management, and representing WDBIH in some of its strategic investments as a …

Vuyokazi Charity Matu is one of the Founders, Directors and Shareholders of Okuhle Media, a Film and Television production company producing content for broadcasters and brands locally and internationally. She was born in the rural Eastern Cape and studied at the University of Transkei.

In 1996 Jules was a single mom who knew there was a better way to contribute to the growth of the new South Africa in which she had so much faith. Breaking away from the safety of a corporate position, she started as an individual training consultant turning over R100K in her first year. In a short, but eventful, 18 …

Margaret Hirsch has become a leading example to business women in Southern Africa – coming from a humble background, to co-founding and running the multi million rand Appliance and Electronic retail organisation, Hirsch’s. Margaret has been recognised through her efforts in building a successful business, and her determination to give back to the community by, over the last four years, …

Wendy holds a portfolio of activities, which is increasingly becoming a phenomenon of today’s generation of people who wish to live a life comprising of diverse experiences that make a difference. Her activities ranged from corporate employment to social entrepreneurship and the boardrooms, with bridging the gap between women and the economy being a common thread in all her endeavors. …

Blogging is not an easy deed. It requires someone who is passionate and dedicated, someone with courage, drive, and ability to write blog articles and publish them on a public platform for everyone to view. In this new South Africa if you don’t have a blog then you do not have the tool to reach out to the people and …

Being a successful career women/ mother/ wife/ girlfriend/ sister can sometimes leave you feeling a little bit stretched. Here at Inspiringwomen we are always on the hunt for women and their stories who we can look to for inspiration. One of these fantastic women is Zinhle Jiyane, aka DJ Zinhle. Zinhle will be speaking on Kaya FM about how she …

Shaleenah Marie Samsunder currently heads up the ‘Learning and Education’ portfolio at Siemens. She is a certified coach and NLP Practitioner through Henley Business School and is currently completing her Masters Degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change.

Esmaré Weideman has been CEO of Media24, South Africa’s largest media company, for the past five years. Her appointment in 2011 followed almost ten years at the helm of South Africa’s flagship weekly news and entertainment magazines Huisgenoot, YOU and DRUM.