Eltena Rethman

Eltena Rethman

With more than 24 years of experience across different sectors in a number of local and international organisations, Eltena Rethman is an expert in the NGO landscape. Having grown up in a township in a working-class family, Rethman’s circumstances were anything...
Innocentia Mamaila

Innocentia Mamaila

Innocentia Mamaila’s career has taught her to see change as an opportunity and not as a threat. With an accounting background and dreams of owning her own business, she completed a bachelor of accounting science in internal auditing at the University of South Africa,...
Ancillar Nombewu

Ancillar Nombewu

Ancillar Nombewu wears many hats. As a journalist, she writes for the people. As a businesswoman, she is making waves. After completing her honours in journalism at the University of Johannesburg, Nombewu dove straight into work for Caxton Community Newspapers. Her...
Desiree Ellis

Desiree Ellis

As the coach of South Africa’s women’s football team Banyana Banyana — the continent’s reigning champions after winning the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations — Desiree Ellis is an inspiration to many girls and women in South Africa and around the world. A lifelong...
Samantha Le Roux

Samantha Le Roux

“To change one life is a blessing — we’ve changed many. Have we changed enough? Certainly not,” says Samantha Le Roux, founder and hands-on president of Cornerstone Woman. Le Roux says that she attended “the school of life” and she left formal schooling at the age of...