Date: 09/08/2004
Source: Department of Trade and Industry
Title: L Hendricks: TWIB annual awards
SPEECH BY DEPUTY MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY, LINDIWE HENDRICKS, AT THE TWIB ANNUAL AWARDS, Kimberley, Northern Cape, 9 August 2004
A good evening to all of you BO MME BAMO KIMBERLEY and all those who have travelled from all the nine provinces of South Africa. I'm also humbled to hear that some of you took a train to get here, that special effort is highly appreciated by me. It shows how much TWIB is now a part of your lives. I hope you have had a wonderful day and are looking forward to be part of this conference. Generally, these Awards are the highlight of TWIB. Not only because of the glamour surrounding us today, but purely because these awards draw out a lot of CURIOSITY amongst participants, TENSION as well as ANXIETY for our finalist. In all, they are about EXCITEMENT and FUN. Part of the excitement includes the personal rush that each one of us here today went though as we were preparing for the evening. This involved choosing the outfit to wear, the make up, the perfume etc. Unfortunately this is one thing that men generally will never be able to experience.
Tonight all your presence is highly appreciated. THANK YOU FOR HONOURING OUR INVITATION. A very special thank you to the province for hosting this Gala Dinner today. Thanks for the finance and more, for the assistance of all your officials. Indeed, we are grateful for all your kindness. To our sponsors, thank you for the gifts, your generosity will go far. I have heard before that nothing happens in Kimberley, today we are going to prove them wrong with our partying and I think the MEC can see the creativity of organising women's activities, and will continue to expand on such initiatives.
Before we start the official celebrations of this evening, it's important that we honour this day - the 9th of August. This day is about honouring the hard work of South African women who were CENTRAL to the achievement of our democracy. It is important that we as women and men gathered here know the full history of this democracy. This history is about the political struggle of both men and women. We also have the responsibility to pass this history to our daughters and sons for continuity.
It is no accident that we chose this calendar day, which is the 9th of August as our day of celebrating women's achievement in the field of BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY. The history of this day should never be forgotten. The 9th of August signifies the political struggle of most of our fallen SHEROES. It was on the 9th of August in 1956 where more than twenty thousand women of all races confronted the Verwoeds government, protesting about the PASS laws. These pass laws restricted the movement of BLACK women as well as that of their husbands from rural to urban areas. The success of their protest facilitated our FREEDOM that we as women and the country at large are celebrating today.
We should understand that this FREEDOM that we are celebrating today was NEVER FREE, nor was it attained easily. It was earned through women's hard work, sweats and passion for it. It was through their BRAVENESS, their EAGERNESS, and most of all their SKILLFULL MOBILISATION & ORGANISING that made this day possible. All of these earned and guaranteed us this PRESTIGOUS CELEBRATION of today.
Tonight, I stand in front of you as women with great confidence and with great joy in honour of these women and the history they made. As we honour the history of these women, it is also important that we honour those males who ensured that our decade of democracy recognises the hard work of these women. A man who ensured that this history informs today's the manner in which South Africa is governed. As he took over the Presidency in 1994, as part of addressing his first democratic cabinet, he said " It is vitally important that all structures of government including the presidency should understand fully that freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression" These words have gone far, and today you have women like me being part of Cabinet. Women's rights that we all are enjoying today gave us a SPECIAL FEELING & the PRIDE of being South African Women.
Tonight's event is about Honouring, Acknowledging and Awarding women's creativity and innovation. Before we do this, I want us to honour the Nobel Prize Winners of Women's March - August 1956. Amongst others, tonight we honour women like Ms. Lillian Ngoyi, Ms. Helen Joseph, Ms. Albertina Sisulu, Ms. Tambo, Ms. Winnie Mandela, Victoria Mxenge and many other. Our eternal sincere gratitude and appreciation goes representing our token of appreciation to all of them. Malibongwe We also extend these to our mothers and our grandmothers whose names will forever be held preciously, both in our hearts and in our minds. We salute them indeed.
Since we are being hosted in Kimberly, A special honour and acknowledgement goes this diamond city and very special women from here. I guess many of you are not aware that the city of Kimberley is no stranger to the great achievements and feats of women. Just to mention a few, it was here that the first woman trained as a pilot in 1912, the first female municipal traffic wardens were selected, and also the first women judge, Miss Justice Leonara van de Heever, was appointed.
Coming to the TWIB 2004 Awards, let us celebrate with all our winners. Congratulations to all those who entered for this competition, good luck to all the nominees and cheers to the winners of tonight. To the overall winner, like a diamond of Kimberly, be a spark of TWIB and may your shine bring light to other women in business.
Issued by: Department of Trade and Industry
9 August 2004
Source: Department of Trade and Industry
(http://www.dti.gov.za)
Source: Department of Trade and Industry
Title: L Hendricks: TWIB annual awards
SPEECH BY DEPUTY MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY, LINDIWE HENDRICKS, AT THE TWIB ANNUAL AWARDS, Kimberley, Northern Cape, 9 August 2004
A good evening to all of you BO MME BAMO KIMBERLEY and all those who have travelled from all the nine provinces of South Africa. I'm also humbled to hear that some of you took a train to get here, that special effort is highly appreciated by me. It shows how much TWIB is now a part of your lives. I hope you have had a wonderful day and are looking forward to be part of this conference. Generally, these Awards are the highlight of TWIB. Not only because of the glamour surrounding us today, but purely because these awards draw out a lot of CURIOSITY amongst participants, TENSION as well as ANXIETY for our finalist. In all, they are about EXCITEMENT and FUN. Part of the excitement includes the personal rush that each one of us here today went though as we were preparing for the evening. This involved choosing the outfit to wear, the make up, the perfume etc. Unfortunately this is one thing that men generally will never be able to experience.
Tonight all your presence is highly appreciated. THANK YOU FOR HONOURING OUR INVITATION. A very special thank you to the province for hosting this Gala Dinner today. Thanks for the finance and more, for the assistance of all your officials. Indeed, we are grateful for all your kindness. To our sponsors, thank you for the gifts, your generosity will go far. I have heard before that nothing happens in Kimberley, today we are going to prove them wrong with our partying and I think the MEC can see the creativity of organising women's activities, and will continue to expand on such initiatives.
Before we start the official celebrations of this evening, it's important that we honour this day - the 9th of August. This day is about honouring the hard work of South African women who were CENTRAL to the achievement of our democracy. It is important that we as women and men gathered here know the full history of this democracy. This history is about the political struggle of both men and women. We also have the responsibility to pass this history to our daughters and sons for continuity.
It is no accident that we chose this calendar day, which is the 9th of August as our day of celebrating women's achievement in the field of BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY. The history of this day should never be forgotten. The 9th of August signifies the political struggle of most of our fallen SHEROES. It was on the 9th of August in 1956 where more than twenty thousand women of all races confronted the Verwoeds government, protesting about the PASS laws. These pass laws restricted the movement of BLACK women as well as that of their husbands from rural to urban areas. The success of their protest facilitated our FREEDOM that we as women and the country at large are celebrating today.
We should understand that this FREEDOM that we are celebrating today was NEVER FREE, nor was it attained easily. It was earned through women's hard work, sweats and passion for it. It was through their BRAVENESS, their EAGERNESS, and most of all their SKILLFULL MOBILISATION & ORGANISING that made this day possible. All of these earned and guaranteed us this PRESTIGOUS CELEBRATION of today.
Tonight, I stand in front of you as women with great confidence and with great joy in honour of these women and the history they made. As we honour the history of these women, it is also important that we honour those males who ensured that our decade of democracy recognises the hard work of these women. A man who ensured that this history informs today's the manner in which South Africa is governed. As he took over the Presidency in 1994, as part of addressing his first democratic cabinet, he said " It is vitally important that all structures of government including the presidency should understand fully that freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression" These words have gone far, and today you have women like me being part of Cabinet. Women's rights that we all are enjoying today gave us a SPECIAL FEELING & the PRIDE of being South African Women.
Tonight's event is about Honouring, Acknowledging and Awarding women's creativity and innovation. Before we do this, I want us to honour the Nobel Prize Winners of Women's March - August 1956. Amongst others, tonight we honour women like Ms. Lillian Ngoyi, Ms. Helen Joseph, Ms. Albertina Sisulu, Ms. Tambo, Ms. Winnie Mandela, Victoria Mxenge and many other. Our eternal sincere gratitude and appreciation goes representing our token of appreciation to all of them. Malibongwe We also extend these to our mothers and our grandmothers whose names will forever be held preciously, both in our hearts and in our minds. We salute them indeed.
Since we are being hosted in Kimberly, A special honour and acknowledgement goes this diamond city and very special women from here. I guess many of you are not aware that the city of Kimberley is no stranger to the great achievements and feats of women. Just to mention a few, it was here that the first woman trained as a pilot in 1912, the first female municipal traffic wardens were selected, and also the first women judge, Miss Justice Leonara van de Heever, was appointed.
Coming to the TWIB 2004 Awards, let us celebrate with all our winners. Congratulations to all those who entered for this competition, good luck to all the nominees and cheers to the winners of tonight. To the overall winner, like a diamond of Kimberly, be a spark of TWIB and may your shine bring light to other women in business.
Issued by: Department of Trade and Industry
9 August 2004
Source: Department of Trade and Industry
(http://www.dti.gov.za)
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