Topco Media, in association with the Top Women in Business and Government publication, invites you to submit nominations for the 6th annual Top Women Awards (TWA) that will take place at the Wanderers Ballroom in Illovo, Johannesburg on 18 November 2009.
This event is seen 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.
Companies and individuals who participate in the nomination process will be able to celebrate their successes and mark their performance, while gaining PR and marketing value. It allows for reflection on achievements and gives the chance for the company or individual to demonstrate gender equity.
Past winners include KPMG, The Media Shop, ACSA, Professor Shirley Zinn of Nedbank Group Limited and Kate Shuttelworth of Marvellous Maids.
Nominations for the following awards categories are now open:
Organisation Awards:
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Mining, Engineering and Construction
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Science, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Transport
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Financial Services
- Top Gender Empowered Company: ICT
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Business Support Services
- Top Gender Empowered Company: Emergent Companies and SMMEs
- Top Gender Empowered National, Provincial or Local Government Department
- Top Gender Empowered Government Agency or Parastatal
Individual Awards:
- Top Woman Entrepreneur
- Top Young Woman Entrepreneur
- Top Woman Executive
- Top Woman in the Public Sector
- Top Woman-owned Company
Participate and share in honouring South Africa’s corporate pioneers, government employees and entrepreneurial heroes at the forefront of gender equality. Nomination forms can be completed on the Topco Media website www.topco.co.za. For more information, contact Melody Strick on +27 21 791 7100 or email melody.strick@topco.co.za.
[Thanks Marisa]
