Abaxoxi - the storytellers

Season2 - Episode 1 : Divine designs in the Creative Industry

In this first episode of the Young Women in Business Series, we speak to Wendy Ntinezo - the founder and creative director of Black Merge TV and an overall Creative in the fashion industry; and Kgatliso Letlape Creative Director for Mkhozi Media, Kasi Grooming Club & Popup Markets ZA and Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Maru Design Innovation. Join us as they take us through a soulful, insightful and humorous journey of what it means to be a young black female creative in the industry.

Season1 - Episode 4: Hulisani Neswiswi - Powering up for the future

Hulisani Neswiswi founded an investment business in 2012 which invested in the mining, engineering, and petroleum sectors before moving on to focus on sustainability-linked investing and working with multinationals within that space.
She’s one of 3 directors at Trilemma, a licensed Financial Services Provider offering project finance, development partnership, and other financial products and is responsible for the financial services cluster, so I oversee the product development, capital raising, and parts of the project development processes.

Season1- Episode 3 Hema Vallabh - Investing for Impact

Hema is an engineer, turned entrepreneur, turned investor. Hema is a founding partner at Five35 Ventures, a pan-African VC fund investing in women in tech. She is also the co-founder & CEO of WomHub, a boutique pan-African incubator and the first co-working space for female-founders in STEM in Africa. WomHub is a spin-out of her global, award-winning non-profit WomEng which provides interventions for girls and women at every stage of the engineering skills pipeline. Over the past 15 years Hema has built the full ecosystem of interventions supporting women in STEM from talent pipelining, venture building, incubation, acceleration through to investment.

Season1 - Episode 2 Nomso Kana - Accelerating access to digital highways

Ms Nomso Kana is an entrepreneur in the broadband infrastructure sector. She is a lobbyist for sustainable resource use and led the South African Delegation to the World Sustainability Energy Forum. In 2019 she was appointed to serve as a Commissioner for 4IR: an initiative of the South African President. She has studied nuclear science and serves as a governor for the Nuclear Energy Foundation Agency, a commercial African group that advocates for alternative energy sources in 43 African countries. Kana is actively involved in youth development through the SADC Parliamentary Forum and the African Women leadership network. Kana has received several international accolades for her social entrepreneurship work; the most recent is the Young Entrepreneur award by the African Women Innovation, Entrepreneurship Forum.

Season1 - Episode 1: Refilwe Ledwaba - A flight of fancy

Refilwe is a social entrepreneur, STEAM, SDG, and Girl's education advocate, qualified helicopter and fixed-wing pilot, passionate about youth development in Africa. She is the founder of girls fly programme in Africa (GFPA) foundation, and GFPA Global fund. She is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, council member of the Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) outreach team and a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship (AEMSF) for flight training.