In this section: Women for housing, Technology for women in business, Women in business and more …
Women’s institutions
Women for Housing
Women for Housing is a Section 21, non-profit, company that facilitates opportunities for women in the housing sector. It aims to empower women to play a leading role in the housing sector through advocacy, training and support.
Elizabeth O’Leary
Executive Director
Tel: 011 275 0268
Fax: 086 648 6370
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.womenforhousing.org.za
South African Women Entrepreneurs’ Network
The establishment of the South African Women Entrepreneurs’ Network (Sawen) is a reaction to the fact that women entrepreneurs in South Africa continuously face a wide array of obstacles in starting, growing and sustaining their own enterprises. This department of trade and industry initiative is a networking forum for individuals and organisations that are committed to the promotion and advancement of women entrepreneurs.
Sawen supports the success and growth of women-owned and managed enterprises by facilitating access to relevant resources and support.
Sawen National Satellite Office
Jessica Sibuyi
Tel: 012 394 1606
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.dti.gov.za/sawen
Technology for Women in Business
Technology for Women in Business is an initiative aimed at enhancing the accessibility of science and technology to women in business and, in particular, in small, medium and macro enterprises. It is a national programme under the auspices of the department of trade and industry.
Cathy Mgangira
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 012 841 4990/4983 Fax: 012 841 4954
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.twib.co.za
HIRS
Equal opportunities still seem to be eluding women. The HIRS Women’s Development Consultancy aims to change this status quo and the way in which women do business in South Africa.
The HIRS Team
Tel: 011 455 0769
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.hirs.co.za
South African Professional and BusinessWomen’s Network
The South African Professional and Businesswomen’s Network serves women in business by raising profiles, contributing to the achievement of goals and providing exposure to a diverse range of business success models.
Editor
Tel: 084 361 3606
Fax: 086 606 1124
Website:www.inspiringwomen.co.za
Women in Business
Women in Business is a voluntary non-profit organisation that was formed on June 1 2005 at a meeting in Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
The uMgungundlovu District Municipalities mandate for the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Commerce was to facilitate the setting up of local business in its area of governance, and was the catalyst in the formalisation of Women in Business.
Website: www.womeninbusiness.org.za
Business Women’s Association
The Businesswomen’s Association is the largest and most prominent association of business and professional women in South Africa and the voice of women in business.
Through strategic partnerships with sponsors, non-profit organisations, leading companies, business schools and international associations, it provides ongoing opportunities to advance the interests of women in business.
Tel: 011 486 0186
Fax: 011 486 0303
Website: www.bwasa.co.za
Women Iinvestment Portfolio Holdings
Four successful black women executives founded Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (Wiphold) in 1994 as an organisation dedicated to women’s empowerment. They realised that true economic empowerment would require a process of wealth mobilisation and accumulation, and that this would be especially important in the case of women. This led the founders to examine the use of women’s investment clubs as empowerment vehicles.
Educational workshops were held on a countrywide basis to develop the idea and to secure the support of women from various socio-economic groups, regions and races. Wiphold was launched with a seed capital of R500 000 and initially grew from strength to strength as a passive investment trust.
Tel: 011 715 3600
Fax: 011 715 3612
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.wiphold.com
Women’s Development Bank Investment Holdings
Women’s Development Bank Investment Holdings’s (WDBIH) mandate is to create value by building up a portfolio of investments and repatriating the profits through to the trust for disbursement to the group’s social development programmes.
From its humble beginnings in 1997, to date WDBIH has repatriated close to R35-million to the trust. WDBIH is also committed to ensuring the economic empowerment of women in its underlying investments through placements, promotion opportunities and skills transfer.
Tel: 011 341 9900
Fax: 011 341 9911
Email: [email protected]
South African Women in Mining Association
The South African Women in Mining Association (Sawima) was launched in December 1999 to assist informal mining groups to obtain mineral rights and run mining businesses/operations as well as to promote female empowerment in the mining sector in accordance with provisions of the Mining Charter.
Sawima National Office
Tel: 011 834 9039
Fax: 011 834 8060
Cell: 082 457 9379
Email: [email protected]
Women in ICT
Women in ICT (WICT) is a non-profit organisation that was formed with the aim of creating a support infrastructure for women in information technology, telecommunication and broadcasting. The forum facilitates knowledge and access to the ICTs for women.
Tel: 011 883 0041
Fax: 011 883 2249
Email: [email protected]