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Fabulous Woman Awards 2024 Entries Now Open Celebrating Change Agents Across South Africa

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Fabulous Woman Awards 2024 Entries Now Open Celebrating Change Agents Across South Africa:

Fabulous Woman Awards is thrilled to announce that nominations across all categories are now open, ready to honour agents of change making a difference in communities throughout South Africa.

Celebrating its twelfth year, and themed Ethical Leadership, the annual Fabulous Woman Awards are back and will again shine the spotlight on outstanding women in the country.

The awards, which are the brainchild of award-winning businesswoman and philanthropist Pontsho Manzi started in 2013 through her foundation, SLM Foundation. Manzi’s foundation has been helping and inspiring the youth, particularly youth from disadvantaged backgrounds with skills to secure employment or to start their businesses, to dream beyond their current circumstances and to uphold integrity in every aspect of their lives.

Pontsho said about the awards, “I’m delighted to recognise the outstanding and excellent change agents who have done sterling work in poverty eradication and the empowerment and advancement of women and youth in South Africa. I look forward to hearing more about their successes and endeavours over the coming months.

“The annual awards have been created to honour women who possess ethical leadership, vision, innovation, excellence and impactful community initiatives with the ultimate goal being to present role models for other women to aspire to.”

The awards are calling for nominations for the following categories:

• Fabulous Woman Humanitarian Award
• Fabulous Woman Job Creation Award
• Fabulous Woman Resilience Award
• Fabulous Woman Gender Equality Award
• Fabulous Women Empowerment Award
• Fabulous Woman of the Soil Award
• Fabulous Woman of the Year Award
• Fabulous Girl of the Year Award
• Fabulous Woman in Health Award
• Fabulous Woman Global Impact Award
• Fabulous Woman End Gender Based Violence

Enter now: all the details!

• Everything you need is at www.fabulouswomanawards.co.za. Visit the website for all the details on each category, nomination criteria nomination rules.

The awards gala will take place in August in Johannesburg, promising an unforgettable night to remember for these women who are empowering and positively impacting the nation.
For more information, reach out at info@fabulouswomanawards.co.za or engage with us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
Use the hashtags #FabWomanAwards2024 to join the conversation.

The closing date is May 30.

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Author: Sandy Waller from SLM Foundation on behalf of SLM Foundation.

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From Sophiatown to Triomf

By 1963, Sophiatown had been physically razed to the ground. In a final act of psychological warfare, the government built a white working-class suburb over the rubble and named it Triumph (Triomf). They wanted to erase the very memory of Sophiatown from the landscape. For decades, the name Sophiatown disappeared from maps, replaced by the neat, sterile streets of the victors.

The “resurrection” of Sophiatown began officially in 2006, when the City of Johannesburg formally restored the original name to the suburb. Today, the neighborhood is a quiet, leafy residential area, but the ghosts of the “Paris of the Transvaal” are everywhere. The Sophiatown Heritage Centre, housed in the former home of Dr. A.B. Xuma (a former ANC president), is one of the few original buildings that escaped the bulldozers. Walking through the streets today, you can still find small markers of the past: a lone Victorian pillar, a specific tree mentioned in a poem, or the rebuilt St. Joseph’s Church.

The legacy of Sophiatown is not just one of tragedy, but of an indestructible cultural spirit. The music, the slang (Tsotsitaal), and the “Drum” era aesthetic continue to influence South African fashion and film today. It serves as a reminder that while you can bulldoze a house and rename a street, you cannot kill the soul of a place that once danced to the sound of a thousand saxophones.