SOUTH African actress, businesswoman, accountant and human rights activist Nomzamo Mbatha finally launched Nomzamo Lighthouse Foundation’s Women in Business Awards on Wednesday, 3 August.
The KwaMashu-born actress created her foundation in 2015.
It was inspired by the plight of South Africa’s most vulnerable and marginalised.
Nomzamo posted a video of herself explaining what these awards are all about and who is eligible to enter.
“The late Charlotte Maxeke once said, do not live above your people but live with them and if you rise to take someone with you. And that is what Nomzamo Lighthouse Foundation in partnership with Hollywood Foundation is doing.
“To honour the 9th of August 1956 as well as the Women’s Month legacy, we are taking an army of women with us. It is my greatest honour and greatest privilege to announce Nomzamo Lighthouse Foundation Empowering her women in business awards,” she said.
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Nomzamo said if you are a woman in business and you are looking to be empowered and uplifted, you should enter the awards, or if you know a woman who is in business, you can go ahead and nominate them.
Entries are open until Wednesday, 17 August.
Through her foundation’s partnership networks within the public, private and civil sectors, they have established scholarship and youth empowerment programmes, positively impacting youth and changing the course of many lives.
The foundation has a growing national footprint spanning seven out of nine provinces: KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, Western Cape, and Gauteng and is set to expand to all nine.
They are continuing to develop and expand the programme offering and partnership networks to reach and impact as many lives as possible.
The actress was recognised by OkayAfrica Digital Media as an OkayAfrika 100 Women 2018 honoree.She has also spent time touring Kenyan refugee camps, in her role as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ambassador.
