Johannesburg's executive mayor Amos Masondo announces the City's Women Development Strategy (Photo: Enoch Lehung, City of Johannesburg)

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Women share business know-how A series of presentations on aspects of doing business in Johannesburg are to take place at a women's forum held in Orlando on the weekend. August 24, 2007 By George Matlala WOMEN from around Joburg are to gather in Orlando, Soweto, to share their business and entrepreneurial know-how. Part of Women's Month, the event at Uncle Tom's Hall on Saturday, 25 August is expected to draw more than 700 participants. The event takes place from 9am until 3pm. Topics to be covered include: business opportunities; procurement procedures and labour issues. Executive mayor, Amos Masondo, will deliver the keynote address. The event has been organised by the City of Johannesburg and agencies such as the Gauteng Enterprise Propeller, the Department of Trade and Industry and, funding institutions Khula Enterprise and Umsobomvu Youth Fund have been invited to present workshops. "We have also invited women who are still struggling to start their own businesses," says the manager of women development programmes in the City's department of community development, Anna Mohajane. The chairperson of Women With Mission Clothing, Busi Dangazele, will talk about the challenges encountered in the business industry. The company makes garments and uniforms, supplying patient-gowns to the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, as well as uniforms to the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and several schools around Johannesburg. On a lighter note, participants will also be treated to a fashion show and gardening exhibitions. The event is part of the City's skills development programme, outlined in its Women Development Strategy. "This is one of the ways to show that the City is committed to women development," Mohajane adds. In August 2006 the Women Development Strategy was drawn up following a series of workshops held by the City's department of community development and attended by some 1 600 women. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za