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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 […]

Watch President Cyril Ramaphosa launches the GBVF Response Fund1

IoDSA and IWFSA announce long-term partnership aimed at developing ethical and effective women leadership

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 Irene Charnley believes this is an amount that will go directly to issue particularly affecting women and children.

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)

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.

To help celebrate women in small business in October, we talked to a game-changer in community banking.

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)

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