Womanity - Women in Unity

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Lebo Mashile who is an award-winning poet, author, actress, and producer. She reflects on her journey into the creative arts, which deviated from her initial academic pursuits to study law and international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. As an actress her film credits include Hotel Rwanda , and on the stage...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Prof. Ghada El-Kamah who is a Professor of Clinical Genetics, coordinator of The Hereditary Blood Disorders (HBD) and Genodermatoses clinics and research team, Human Genetics and Genome Research Institute (HGGRI) at the National Research Centre (NRC), which is mainly involved in the study of medical genetics with a focus on in...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Prof Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo , who is a professor in Human Genetics and holds the chair of Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. She is a founding member and general secretary of the Senegalese Society for Human Genetics (S2GH), a member of the executive...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Prof Jantina de Vries , who is the director of The Ethics Lab at the Neuroscience Institute and an Associate Professor in Bioethics in the Department of Medicine of the University of Cape Town . She is a member of: the Research Ethics Board of Médecins Sans Frontières, the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics i...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to a woman of several firsts Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala . Currently, she serves as Director-General of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) (first woman and first African to do so); previously, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala twice served as Nigeria’s Finance Minister (2003-2006 and 2011-2015) and briefly acted as Foreign Minister in 2006,...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Prof. Suki Goodman , the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town , who also leads the Future of Work research programme under the South African Research Chair: Creation of Decent Work and Sustainable Livelihood . For the past three decades Prof. Goodman has progressively risen through the academic ranks...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr Francesca Conradie from the Wits Health Consortium at the University of the Witwatersrand . Dr Conradie graduated as a medical doctor during the 1980s, a politically tumultuous period in South Africa with the unravelling of apartheid, coupled to this dynamic was the global rise in HIV/AIDS infections. Dr Conradie recalls at...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Michèle Ramsay , who is a Professor in Human Genetics, holds the SARCHI Chair for Genomics and Bioinformatics of African Populations at the University of the Witwatersrand and is a director of The Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience . The Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) is...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Resia Pretorius , Department Head and Distinguished Research Professor in the P hysiological Sciences Department , Faculty of Science, at Stellenbosch University . She is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool. Additionally, she is Managing Director of BioCODE Technologies . Prof. Pretorius highlig...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to the CEO of Microsoft South Africa Lillian Barnard . Microsoft has a market capitalisation in the region of USD 1.78 trn, ranking second in the world. It owns multiple subsidiaries, including LinkedIn, Skype and Xbox, and approximately 1.4bn people across the globe use one or more Microsoft products or services. Ms Barnard shar...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to soprano Pretty Yende , who has made her mark in the world of opera, performing in Paris, Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, New York, Barcelona and many more cities. As a sixteen-year-old Pretty was contemplating her future as an accountant, until one evening a British Airways television advert featuring Delibes’ Flower Duet expos...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to neurophysiologist Candice Bottcher from the Entabeni Epilepsy Laboratory at Life Entabeni Hospita l in Durban, South Africa. According to the World Health Organisation approximately 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, a disorder that is characterised by abnormal brain activity that may cause seizures or bouts of unusual...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Professor Mmamosheledi (Mamza) Mothibe , who is Head of the Division of Pharmacology, in the Faculty of Pharmacy , at Rhodes University . We discuss some of her responsibilities in this role, from teaching and developing a curriculum that meets the criteria of the Pharmacy Council to managing the pharmacology division. Prof. M...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Susan Coetzer, who is a specialist geriatrician and specialist physician in private practice. She is vice-president of the South African Geriatrics Society . Human life expectancy is on the rise, in part thanks to healthier lifestyles and improved medical care . In South Africa male life expectancy is 59 and females 65. As...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure and leader of the p olitical party “Good” , Patricia de Lille . Minister de Lille shares some of her mandates to manage, maintain and grow government’s land and property assets, a portfolio valued at approximately R5trillion. During her time as mayor of Cape Town the region exper...

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to authentic, energetic and ever passionate Rami Chuene , who wears several professional caps – successful actress, singer, author and philanthropist to name a few. She takes us back in time, twenty-five years ago, to the moment that the entertainment bug bit and released her creative aspirations. Rami gives a reality check on so...

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...