Chaired by High Court Judge Lucy Mailula, 16 high profile South Africans have been named as judges for the Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year Award. They will meet in June 2010 to determine the finalists and winners.
Categories, judges
Health-Care Givers - chair is Prof Sharon Fonn, an academic who has published in the fields of women's health, gender and health systems development. She is assisted by Prof Lynette Denny who has been doing research for the past 15 years in preventing cervical cancer in low resource settings and Dr Naeema Abrahams, a senior specialist scientist at the Gender & Health Unit of the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
Educators - chair is Prof Teboho Moja, who has served as Special Advisor to two Ministers of Education in South Africa. The other two panel members are Prof Sarah ("Saartjie") Gravett, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg and Dr Gcina Mhlophe-Becker who is one of the more prominent storytellers in South Africa.
Corner Shop to Big Business Makers - chair is Chichi Maponya, who is a young businessperson. Jeanne Groenewald another businessperson who runs a multi-million enterprise and Mokgethi Tshabalala who is the Head of Operations at the Branson School of Entrepreneurship.
Good Neighbours - chair is South African journalist, Ruda Landman. Nonkombi Bertha Gxowa, former Treasurer-General of the ANC Women's League and Dr Barbara Holtmann who leads research in crime and violence at the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), join her.
Youth Movers - chair is Thebe Ikalafeng, one of South Africa's top marketers, who has been recognised nationally and internationally in the marketing industry. He is assisted by Aadielah Maker, a community health campaigner and a senior executive for social mobilisation at the Soul City Institute and Vaughn Bishop, the man who conceptualised and manages the award winning Let's Play campaign, which has been recognised as the best CSI initiative in South Africa.
