12 of South Africa’s top women entrepreneurs to celebrate this Women's Month
According to The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Africa now has the highest growth in businesses started and run by women. In many fields, women entrepreneurs are leading the way. At The Workspace, we love seeing this in practice. The women entrepreneurs among our members do everything. They offer tax advice to manufacture personal protective gear, build business
12 of South Africa’s top women entrepreneurs to celebrate this Women's Month
According to The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Africa now has the highest growth in businesses started and run by women. In many fields, women entrepreneurs are leading the way.
At The Workspace, we love seeing this in practice. The women entrepreneurs among our members do everything. They offer tax advice to manufacture personal protective gear, build business software systems, run catering businesses, manage important NGOs and much, much more.
Towards the end of the ten years that the African Union has declared as African Women’s Decade, and in time for Women’s Day, we profile some of South Africa’s top women entrepreneurs.
Zeenat Ghoor: Director of Aspire Consulting Engineers
Source: Standard Bank Top Women
After studying civil engineering at UCT, Zeenat Ghoor gained experience across the spectrum of civil and structural engineering projects.
Undaunted by the challenges of operating in a traditionally male-dominated industry, Ghoor started her own construction and consulting engineering practice.
Working primarily with skilled disadvantaged artisans, she began by doing new builds and renovations for home owners. Today, the company attracts projects worth hundreds of millions.
Ghoor believes in:
- commitment to excellence
- self-development; she notes that in engineering, you learn something new every day
- employing “SWANs” – people who are smart, hard-working, ambitious and nice
Awards:
- Standard Bank’s Top Woman National Entrepreneur of the Year, 2019
- 2018 Highly Commended Engineer.
Dineo Lioma: Co-founder of Incitech, CapeBio Technologies and Deep Medical Therapeutics
Source: Queen’s College Cambridge
Not yet 30 years old, Dineo Lioma has already co-founded three innovative companies in the biotechnology sphere.
In cooperation with IBM, Deep Medical Therapeutics is working on artificial intelligence (AI) systems for helping doctors determine the best therapies for drug-resistant diseases, like TB.
CapeBio Technologies manufactures laboratory reagent enzymes for use in molecular biology research.
Incitech is developing a device for faster diagnosis of HIV.
Lioma believes it’s important to:
- create meaningful solutions that will impact the status of health care in Africa
- benchmark products against the best in the market
- remember the commercial aspect of science.
Awards:
