On Thursday, March 10, 2016, a London based pan-African magazine, the New African, honoured a select group of outstanding African women at the Andaz hotel in London. With an impressive selection panel including Dr. Nkosana Moyo (the Executive Chairman of Mandela Institute for Development Studies), Onike Nicol-Houra (Principal Business Development Officer at the African Development Bank) and Amadou Mahtar Ba (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman AllAfrica Global Media, and Member of UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment), the awardees were selected for making significant contributions in various fields within and beyond Africa.
The 2016 New African award recipients are:
Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi, 56 (South Africa)
New African Woman of the Year