Womanity - Women in Unity

The start of a new year symbolises new beginnings. Motivation can be a powerful catalyst to pursue your goals and seek changes that perhaps challenge society’s expectations. Today’s collection of vignettes are about pursuing passions and being instigators of change. We hear from Professor Caroline Ncube who heads up the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, Dr Heide Hackman...

Welcome to Womanity Women in Unity, this is our final broadcast of 2022, and we use this show to share some of the lessons learned from female leaders about leadership. Our first guest in this feature is the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia, Mutale Nalumango , who is also the Vice President of Zambia’s ruling party, the United Party for National Development.   Vice President Nalumango shar...

Welcome to Womanity Women in Unity for our special compilation of select programs over the last year. We hope to inspire you through the words of three young successful women. Miss South Africa  2022 Ndavi Nokeri  who advocates for education equity, she explains the importance of education in her life and lifting communities out of poverty and discusses the goals of her community project Ed-Unite,...

Reflecting on some of our past shows from 2022, tune into our previous conversation with Dr. Ledile Mokoka who specialises in nephrology at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital . Kidney disease is often a secondary effect of other conditions like hypertension and diabetes, according to diabetesatlas.org 24 million people in Africa (1 in 22) have diabetes.  These are non-communicable diseases tha...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Jo-Anne Madurai , who is an anaesthetist in private practice, at  Jones, Bhagwan and Partners . For anaesthetists no two days are the same, they work with a variety of surgeons and procedures – from orthopaedic to neonatal to cardiac to neurological cases and more. Dr. Madurai recalls some memorable learning experienc...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Shahpar Motakef, who is the Clinical Head of the Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) unit at Charlotte Maxete Academic Hospital. She lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand in the Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) department and is an ENT specialist at Fourways Life hospital and is a member of the Rhinoplasty Society. We note that th...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Delmaine Christians who represents the Democratic Alliance party in parliament and is a member of the select committee on education and technology, sports, arts and culture (NCOP Committee) and the select committee on Health Social and Services (NCOP Committee) We discuss her journey into politics from the education sector, whi...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Yumna Minty , who is a specialist psychiatrist and also lectures in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of the Witwatersrand . Some of her areas of interest include women’s mental health, mental health in adolescents and young adults, depression and anxiety disorders, and older age mental disorders. She reflects...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Ms Judy Hermans , who is a member of parliament representing the African National Congress (ANC) and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition .   We discuss a few focal points of the committee, emanating from events like Covid-19, civil unrest and natural disasters, such as the need to be more r...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to the CEO of Clicks Group Bertina Engelbrecht. Clicks is a leading health and beauty retailer listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with over 800 stores and more than 600 in-store pharmacies and a loyalty programme exceeding 9.7 million active members. Ms Engelbrecht shares some of her career milestones with local and multin...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Miss SA 2022, Ndavi Nokeri . We discuss the deliberate steps she took towards her Miss SA 2022 journey by becoming a woman she considers worthy of the title; someone who is educated, is able to lead, stand up for her convictions and give back to her community. Her Gabaza village roots frame her perspective of contrasts and soc...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Lizanne Langenhoven who is a clinical and radiation oncologist with the Panorama Centre For Surgical Oncology in Cape Town. October is breast cancer awareness month , which serves as an annual international campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer; and 13 October is International Metastatic Breast Cancer Day. In toda...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Dineo Tshabalala , who is a medical oncologist at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and senior lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand . October is breast cancer awareness month , which serves as an annual international campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer; and 13 October is International Metasta...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Mimmy Martha Gondwe , who is a member of parliament representing the Democratic Alliance and member of the Portfolio Committee of Public Service as well as Administration and the Joint Constitutional Review Committee. Dr. Gondwe refers to herself as a reluctant politician. She is driven to make a difference in people’s live...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Ms Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba , who is a member of parliament representing the African National Congress ( ANC ) and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education .  This committee conducts oversight and monitors the work that the executive is doing. We highlight some of the core focus areas of the Department of Bas...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr Jyoti Bajpai , a Professor of Medical Oncology at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai India and Dr Nermean Mostafa a lecturer of clinical oncology and early detection at the Ain Shams University in Cairo Egypt. They share some of their motivations for pursuing oncology as a specialisation and give an overview of the field in...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Renata Schoeman, who is in private practice as a general psychiatrist, heads up the healthcare leadership MBA specialisation stream at the University of Stellenbosch Business School , serves on advisory boards for several companies and has been appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Board for Mental Health . According...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Nicola Smit, the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Stellenbosch . We discuss aspects of her vision for the faculty that include spearheading legal education, building capacity and having a deep social impact on communities. We acknowledge the fact that today’s graduates will likely work in new careers th...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia – Mutale Nalumango , who is also Vice President of Zambia’s ruling party the  United Party for National Development ( UPND ). Vice President Nalumango shares how her life path has been navigated by the drive to fight all forms of injustice, like social inequity, poverty al...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity for our series on women in the judiciary Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Judge Harshila Kooverjie – from the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria. Prior to her appointment to the bar Judge Kooverjie served on several public sector boards, like the Council for Medical Schemes , Chartered Institute of Arbitrators , Financial Services Board Tribunal as...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, for our series on women in the judiciary , Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Judge Lindiwe Rusi from the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Mthatha. Judge Rusi’s disciplined upbringing compelled her to strive for order and equity, which formed foundational values for a vocation in law. During the early part of her career she was involved with several o...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, for our series on women in the judiciary , Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Judge Marisa Naude-Odendaal – from the Limpopo Division of the High Court, Polokwane.  Judge Naude-Odendaal has had a strong sense of social justice from a young age which paved the way for a  career in law. She gives us insight into real life experiences as a mother and pro...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, for our series on women in the judiciary , Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to High Court Judge Carol Sibiya from the KwaZulu Natal division of the High Court. Judge Sibiya shares her journey to the judiciary and rising through the ranks to the bench, which was motivated, in part, by her father who was a lawyer, the desire to ensure people have access to justice...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Ambassador Ayşegül Kandaş , the Ambassador of Turkey to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini. We discuss some of her career highlights and the instrumental role that education played in her development, noting the power of knowledge. Generally, the number of women in the diplomatic corps i s increasing, and there is a relatively...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, in commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to the Director General of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) – Advocate Mikateko Joyce Maluleke . The theme of this year’s youth month is “Promoting sustainable livelihoods and resilience...