“I really thrive when things are deurmekaar. When everybody runs away, I’m like wait, hold on, just breathe, let me think quickly … and there we go. I guess this is what passion does.” sheismyrock
. When everybody runs away, I’m like wait, hold on, just breathe, let me think quickly … and there we go. I guess this is what passion does.”, one of the heroes of the horror that is the Covid-19 pandemic. Joanie through her organisation has been feeding thousands of people in her community during lockdown.and hopeless, get going and make a plan.
Be it the battle against coronavirus, poverty, inequality or our country’s shameful other pandemic, gender-based violence, they rise and they organise, with the same spirit as the women of the 1956 march to the Union Buildings who sang Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo! . So this August, IOL in collaboration with the African News Agency, is launching our #SheIsMyRock campaign.
We are calling on our readers, corporate partners and staff to nominate a woman who is empowering and uplifting her community, fellow women or her industry.The #SheIsMyRock nominee will be featured on IOL and you could stand a chance of winning one of our awesome weekly prizes to give to her.
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