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I’m enormously proud to announce that Christine Schuler-Deschryver is one of the guest speakers at our upcoming inaugural Women’s Empowerment Journey June 11 – 17, 2019 in South Africa.

Yesterday I was clever – so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise – so I am changing myself.’
-Rumi

The many roads – of designer, stylist, chef, restaurateur, author and product developer – that Maranda Engelbrecht has traveled in her career thus far have led to her current role as creative director of Babylonstoren

‘IsiNdebele is my culture and I love it. I speak IsiNdebele, I walk IsiNdebele and I wear IsiNdebele.’
– Esther Mahlangu

It’s official, the best female chef in the world is South African. As announced in Warsaw last month, Chantel Dartnell the owner and head-chef of Gauteng-based Restaurant Mosaic took the coveted title after being selected by 300 voters,

Drawing on her experiences in Africa and her deep connections to people and places, our CEO and founder Deborah Calmeyer has been delivering one-on-one journeys into Africa for her discerning clients for more than a decade. Blessed with that rare ability to curate,

While it was the landmark findings of a Census of Marine Life in 2010 that gave the world its first inkling into the largely unexplored depths of our oceans,

Don’t be fooled by the pint-sized stature of Turkish-born but Cape Town-based creative Yelda Bayraktar.