I WAS HERE

HER FOOTPRINTS ARE ALREADY MARKED ON THIS EARTH

I was here campaign logo

As a person growing up in this world we live in we are told that it’s good to always give back to those less fortunate. But remember that when you do give back, it shouldn't be in order to receive something back in return. Do it out of the goodness of your heart. 

good deeds for world humanitarian day

Landing a helping hand through CSI

Corporate social investment is defined as the concept where people and usually organizations give back to the community in which they operate or come from.  It is also defined as the continuing commitment by businesses to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workplace as well as the local community and society at large. www.clevelandcarbonfund.org

Beyonce Knowles-Carter in her Derion outfit

Beyonce working with the UN

Well there is one woman who took it to the extreme and through her music she educated and also created more awareness for the United Nations campaign of the World Humanitarian Day, which is held every year on the 19^th August. The campaign is all about recognizing those who face danger and adversity to help others.

Beyonce Gissel Knowles-Carter is an award winning artist that is known by many as the Queen of Pop. She is one of the inspiring women on earth and has made it on the top5 of Forbes list of the Most Powerful Female Celebrities in the world. Her song “I was here” was launched on the 10^th of August 2012 as a celebration of all the humanitarian work all over the globe, in form of a unique event featuring a world renowned artist and was held at the UN’s (United Nations) General Assembly in New York, in the United States of America, to inspire people to leave a mark on the world. 

a video of beyonce singing the famous song "I was here"

More Charity work

She is mostly known for her humanitarian work such as her Survivor Foundation, an organization founded to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. At one point Beyoncé was also an Ambassador for the 2005 World Children’s Day, and released “Stand Up For Love,” the anthem for the event which takes place annually around the world on November 20 to raise awareness and funds for children’s causes. Now the new anthem for the World Humanitarian Day is “I was here”.

Now in conclusion, I’ve learned from all this is that you don’t need to have money in order to make a difference and leave your footprints on this earth. All it takes is a small good deed and see the change happen.

sources: http://whd-iwashere.org/, http://www.beyonce.com/news/10-good-deeds, http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/19-beyonce-knowles,

The Publc Protector

A Woman Protecting the Public.

Adv Thuli Madonsela
www.you.co.za

Since this month the blog is focusing on phenomenal women that make a difference in this country of ours, the woman of this week is well known for her role in protecting the nation and making sure that there is no foul play with any government officials,  she is an arbitrator of fairness fighting for human rights and equality for all, or any other matters that affect the nation at large. She is known as the OMBUDSMAN of the people, her name is the one and only Advocate Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela.

Advocate Thuli Madonsela was born in Johannesburg, in the year 1962, and lived in Soweto with both her parents. Her mother was a domestic worker and an unofficial social worker in her community as she was well known for helping people and her father was an informal trader. I guess that’s where she developed the love for always helping people, hence she become an advocate specialising in human rights, the constitution, equality expert and policy specialist. She acquired the necessary skills needed for being the public protector from an early age, as she was exposed to it by her parents. we have them to thank for bringing her up the way they did.


 

Advocate Thuli Madonsela holdsa BA Law from UNISWA and an LLB Law from the University of Witwatersrand. She also did postgraduate studies in LLM studies and legal courses to name a few, not forgetting the role she played in  helping to the Constitutional Assembly draft the final constitution in the years 1994 nad 1995.

Public Protector Adv Madonsela
www.nwpg.gov.za

   

   “I want justice to have eyes and not be blind."

Protecting the public the public relations style

 Advocate Madonsela acquired the position of the public protector in 2009 and ever since then, she has proven herself to society that indeed she is the right person for the job. She is her own public relations practitioner, she has all the qualities needed and her job requires her to act like a public relations practitioner, as she: 

•  providing information mainly to the public
• gaining favourable publicity
• crisis communications
• engaging of government departments to influence policy making
• direct communication with the public
• books and writings
• speeches to professional organizations and to the general public, and
• appearing on talks how circuits  

These are most of the things she does on a daily basis and most public relations practitioners could learn a thing or two as she does them well.
The woman of the moment, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, our Public Protector.

sources: www.whoswho.co.za/thulisile-madonsela-9068, www.publicprotector.org, www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2012/03/25, www.you.co.za, www.nwpg.gov.za, and http://en.wikipedia.org

From medicine to fashion

A woman on a mission to promote fashion in South Africa

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe



Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a Johannesburg based business woman, who is known for involvement in the South African fashion, which now also includes Africa as a whole. She started as a devoted follower of fashion until she realised that the South African fashion industry need to be developed in order for it to be recognized internationally as well.

She studied medicine at Wits University, where she began her career as a doctor and spent most of her life as a GP (General Practitioner) for a number of public and private hospitals around Johannesburg. Then later on moved to the United States of America, in Virginia and worked at the teenage and women’s health areas at the Medical College. Then when she moved back to South Africa, she opened a Women’s Health Clinic in Johannesburg.

Leaving the medicine practice after 8 years, she decided to head the Motsepe Foundation, which focuses on health and education in poor communities in South Africa.

Moving to fashion

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe is the executive chairperson of African Fashion International , which was formally known as luisuewox. Her company owns and hosts South Africa’s fashion weeks, which include the Johannesburg and Cape Town Fashion Weeks. But they moved to greater heights by also hosting the African Fashion Week .

First Lady Thokeka Zuma with Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe arriving at the JHB Fashion Week



Design by David Tale at JHB Fashion Week





African Fashion International’s mission is to promote and develop South African and African fashion industry and to bring it into the mainstream .

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe giving a speech at the AFI conference

Aims to :

·         get and give free publicity for fashion designers

·         expose African designers to global markets

·         and lastly develop small businesses and entrepreneurs within the fashion industry

"African Fashion International brings together fashion designers, media retailers and consumers." says Dr Precious Molio-Motsepe.

This is an example of how promotions in the Public Relations context is done to perfection. Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe demonstrates how passion and hard work can lead to a successful business that benefits everyone, by creating publicity and promotion all parties involved. May she continue doing the awesome job as we are very proud of her.

sources: www.abndigital.com, www.bantudaily.com, www.justcurious.co.za, www.blogtimeslive.co.za and www.jamati.com   

 

Leading lady of Sport

Ria Ledwaba

The leading female of South African soccer

Ria Ledwaba is a phenomenal woman whose first love is soccer.  She began her love of soccer at a very young age and that helped her build her reputation in a male dominated industry. She is the founder of Ria Stars football club. Not only was she a soccer fanatic, she is also known as a business woman but also a winner of the Shoprite Women of The Year award for The Overall and sports category in 1999.

Although she started as the deputy director for the Local Government and Traditional Affairs for the Northern Province, she realized that she was more in love with soccer was more important than being the director or the Local Government. This is when Ria Stars was formed.

Her love for sports and particularly did not end when her football club was sold, but she continued to get involved in other sporting related carriers. She later on became the Project Manager of the Under-19 Women’s Football and Chair of Women’s Soccer South Africa Football Associations. Her focus wasn’t only on sports but also in the business industry, she is a shareholder and director for Sinda Health Solutions, GAS Pty Ltd Specialist, HFF Group of Companies and The Ifiblile Group.

Ria Ledwaba giving a speech in Polokwane

She has built a brand for herself though out the years and has maintained it. She is also well known for practising what we call in Public Relations Community Relations.Community Relations can be defined as the various methods organisations use to establish and maintain a mutually beneficial relationship between themselves and the community they operate.

 She determined her objective as a role model in her community by following the guidelines for effective community relations programme such as carefully establishing her objectives the she wished to achieve, specific choices that she made keeping in mind the impacts they will have in her community and this is what inspired her to start Ria Stars Football Club.

sources : www.gallloimages.co.za , www.sawoman.co.za , www.answers.com and www.who'swho.co.za