Private sector can help curb gender-based violence and femicide
Irene Charnley There is the adage that people should leave personal issues at home. After all, it is nobody’s business. The truth is gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) is a scourge that needs resources and must be collectively addressed everywhere and all the time. GBVF is not a respecter of status, class, race, age, culture […]
Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the virtual fundraising event for the private sector Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund phase
Watch President Cyril Ramaphosa launches the GBVF Response Fund1
IoDSA & IWFSA announce partnership to develop next generation of ethical & effective women leaders
IoDSA and IWFSA announce long-term partnership aimed at developing ethical and effective women leadership
Tribute to Dr Vuyokazi Mahlati
Today the IWFSA board and members join the global IWF community as we mourn the passing of our beloved IWF South Africa esteemed member and IWF global president designate Dr Vuyokazi Mahlati.
IWFSA welcomes President Ramaphosa’s R500-billion Covid-19 package economic stimulus
IWFSA Irene Charnley believes this is an amount that will go directly to issue particularly affecting women and children.
Winners announced at the 2020 FWA gala dinner
The 2020 Forbes Women Africa (FWA) gala dinner saw the winners of its awards being announced at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March. The event was held directly after the FWA Leading Women Summit, which was hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal government and presented by Mastercard. Read more(Published on www.mediaupdate.co.za)
Budget 2020: Never waste a good crisis
They say we must never waste a good crisis! It is during crisis that true character is revealed, character which our Nation, instilled and nurtured by its women has an abundance of.
IWF Game Changers – Jill Castilla
To help celebrate women in small business in October, we talked to a game-changer in community banking.
Ron Derby talks to President of international women’s forum SA Irene Charnley about the work she does (Listen)
In a recent radio interview on POWER Business, Ron Derby talks to President of international women’s forum SA Irene Charnley about the work she does. (Podcast)
Women should participate meaningfully in all discussions, decisions, forums, and action plans that affect business, government and society at large.
A pre-eminent group of South African business women gathered today at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to assert their collective voice advocating that women should participate meaningfully in all discussions, decisions, forums, and action plans that affect business, government and society at large. The group, representing 100 members of the South African chapter of the […]