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.

Nonhlanhla is the managing Director of Mjoli Development Company and Eziko Investments. The business takes equity in viable businesses and then facilitates their growth through leveraging bank finance, marketing and other appropriate interventions.

Terry Volkwyn is the CEO of Primedia Broadcasting, a position she has occupied since 2002, and the leading force behind Lead SA, an initiative that seeks to mobilise an active civil society. Under her leadership, Primedia Broadcasting – which owns four of South Africa’s leading commercial stations: 947, 702, CapeTalk and Kfm – has grown tenfold.

Confidence is one of the most desired traits in our society. I mean who would not want to have all the confidence in the world? People who are confident have more career success, build better relationships and have the all round self-assurance to turn their dreams into reality. Here is how you can achieve this too.

There are two elements involved in developing a magnetic personality. The first is the ability to attract people and the second is your approachability, that is the extent to which others perceive you as being open. Here is a list of characteristics that make a magnetic personality.

Koo Govender is the CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network South Africa, a multinational media and digital marketing communications company which through its nine global network brands Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum.

Happiness seems like the one thing in life that all of us strive for and yet only a few can honestly say that they have it. So we just get by with whatever gets us by or decide that it will magically appear sometime in the vague future. But what if happiness were not really out of your reach? Here …

Lynette Nontobeko Magasa is the founder and CEO of Boniswa Corporate Solutions (Pty) Ltd, which was established in 2004. Lynette is described as an entrepreneurial business woman who exudes passion for her business and industry, as well as integrity and humility.

Have you ever looked at someone who looks like they have got it all figured out and they know the steps of life? Have you asked yourself how on earth do they do it? How do they just become so successful and balanced? Follow this article and read about why efficient people are so damn good at what they do.

Toni Gomes started the South African branch of Business Professional Women International in South Africa, partnered by the Department of Trade & Industry and UN-Women.  She is the current President & CEO. Her task was to get the organisation up and running and to conceptualise economic empowerment programmes for women, fundraise and generally run the organisation.