Vote for your Women of the Year 2011You can vote for the Women of the Year that you think have achieved in their selected categories. You can ONLY VOTE FOR ONE WOMAN IN EACH CATEGORY - so make sure that you select only the woman who you think deserves to win in her respective category. The work of Women of the Year must show a desire to do something about the problems South African society faces and be significant in terms of creating a better future for South Africans.
Voting closes at 14h00 on 22 July 2011. Health Care-Givers - Finalists
Ms Nomasango Xabanisa is the founder and director of Sibongile -- Thank You in Xhosa, a non-profit organisation that cares for children with disabilities in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town.
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Sister Ethel Normoyle, founder of the Missionvale Care Centres outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, is a role model and leader who has earned South African icon status for the inspirational work she has done to help alleviate poverty with infectious compassion.
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Dr Elmi Muller is a pioneer in the medical field who, together with her transplant team, were the first in the world to transplant a kidney from a HIV-positive donor to a HIV-positive recipient. She carried out this historic transplant in October 2008 and has since performed nine similar procedures.
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Educators - Finalists
Dr Tina Cowley has devoted the past 25 years of her life to national and international research methods and techniques to teach people with learning disabilities how to overcome this, contributing largely to improved reading and education in South Africa.
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Ms Molly Zulu, the first principal of the Ngqengelele High School in a small village, Mahlabathini, in deep rural KwaZulu-Natal, is a courageous woman who took up the challenge to transform a one classroom teaching facility into a high school that is awarded year after year for its matric pass rate and excellence.
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Prof Phindile Lukhele-Olorunju is an internationally respected agriculture researcher, academic and scientist who has contributed largely to African farmers advancing themselves to apply modern and well-researched techniques, and also to encourage education in this field which is frequently perceived to be an unskilled profession dominated by men.
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Socio-economic Business Developers - Finalists
Mrs Jules Newton is a businesswoman, entrepreneur and passionate South African. She founded learning and development company, Avocado Vision, in 1996 and has built it up into a business with a turnover of in excess of R12 million with a 29-strong team and an impressive list of corporate clients.
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Mrs Phumzile Sihlangu. It was living in extreme poverty after the tragic death of her husband that motivated Ms Phumzile Sihlangu to look at the barren land she inherited and make a decision to start farming. Today her farm yields a thousand butternuts on each hectare which she supplies in her area to the country’s big supermarket chains.
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Ms Shona McDonald built a business from nothing into a multi-million enterprise which has received numerous national and international awards for the impact it has had on the lives of people with disabilities in South Africa, enabling them to take their rightful place as part of society.
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Youth Movers - Finalists
Ms Joy Olivier. At the young age of 23, Ms Joy Olivier decided to do something about extremely low pass rate for mathematics and science amongst black matriculants and, together with fellow researcher Makhosi Gogwana, established IkamvaYouth - a township-based volunteer education programme by-youth, for-youth.
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Ms Rosie Mashale, or better known as Mama Rosie, is the founder of the Baphumelele Education Centre and Children’s Home in Khayelitsha - one of South Africa’s most marginalised and poverty-stricken townships, where she cares for hundreds of abandoned and orphaned children from infants to 18-year-olds and takes care of teenagers infected with HIV/Aids.
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Rev Karen Tewson, a professional nurse and ordained minister, has for the past 23 years championed the rights of women, children and sometimes men, who are victims of rape, incest and domestic violence and experience systematic disregard for the trauma they suffered.
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Good Neighbours Against Crime - Finalists
Ms Lucinda Evans is the Founder Member and Director of PhilisaAbafaziBethu --- Heal Our Women --- which is a development programme aiming at providing vital support to women and children who are victims of sexual and domestic violence in the greater Lavender Hill community, 30 km from Cape Town on the Cape Flats.
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Dr Nobs Mwanda is a medical doctor and a pioneer in the field of prevention and holistic management of child abuse. In 2000 Dr Mwanda established a not-for profit organisation, Zamokuhle Community Upliftment Programmes, later called COPESSA, primarily to prevent child abuse and neglect through community development.
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Mrs Tarisai Mchuchu-Ratshidi. Under the leadership of Ms Tarisai Mchuchu-Ratshidi, the international organisation, Young In Prison (YIP) has grown from strength to strength in Cape Town helping young people move away from lives of crime and become successful and contributing members of society.
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