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Top Women Awards 2009

6th annual Top Women Awards (TWA): And the winners are….

The 6th annual Top Women Awards (TWA) took place at the Wanderers Ballroom in Illovo, Johannesburg on Wednesday, 18 November 2009.
These Awards honour South Africa’s corporate pioneers; government employees; and entrepreneurial heroes at the forefront of gender equality. Top Women in Business and Government, in association with Topco Media is proud to announce the following winners:


Top Gender Empowered Organisation Awards
Top Gender Empowered Company: Mining, Engineering and Construction: SEW Eurodrive
Top Gender Empowered Company: Science, Pharmaceuticals and Health: Sechaba Medical Solutions
Top Gender Empowered Company: Transport - Hauliers Consortium
Top Gender Empowered Company: Financial Services - PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc
Top Gender Empowered Company: ICT - Nashua Mobile
Top Gender Empowered Company: Business Support Services - Adams & Adams
Top Gender Empowered Company: Emmergent Companies & SMME’s - Three City Events

Public Sector Awards
National, Provincial or Local Government Department: Department of Public Works
Government Agency or Parastatal: Gender Links

Individual Awards
Top Woman Entrepreneur: Jacqueline Carrol - Media Works
Top Young Woman Entrepreneur: Johanna Mukoki - Travel with Flair
Top Woman Executive: Judy Van Es - Murray & Roberts
Top Woman in the Public Sector: Hendrietta Ipeleng Bogopane-Zulu – Department of Public Works
Top Women Owned Company: Voltsing Electrical

Overall Top Winners Top Woman of the Year in Business: Johanna Mukoki – Travel with Flair
Top Gender Empowered Company of the Year: Sechaba Medical Solutions

The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award for dedication to Gender Empowerment was given to Joyce Piliso-Seroke.

“The Top Women Awards event was not only as a wonderful networking occasion, but also an opportunity to celebrate companies and individuals who contribute to the empowerment of women, who inspire transformation and who strive to affect change through their business practices and within communities. We would like to congratulate all the winners and finalists and thank them for participating,” says Ilse Pienaar, the Publisher of the Top Women in Business and Government publication


Note: Overall winners

Top Woman of the Year in Business was selected from the winners of the five Individual Awards.
(Main Award)
Top Gender Empowered Company
was selected from the winners of the six Top Gender Empowered Organisation Awards
Top Woman Lifetime Achievement award, to a woman who has dedicated her life to the upliftment of women and gender empowerment.
 


 
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