Who Is Mummy Mthembu-Fawkes

Through ambition and determined Mummy had the power of choice; she decided to not let circumstances get in the way of her dreams. Successfully climbing the corporate ladder landing her in specialist, strategic and leadership roles within the telecommunications and IT sector.

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Mummy has been the head of business development for South Africa’s second largest Internet Service Provider, and senior Sales accounts manager for the largest telecommunications company in Africa to name a few. After a successful 14 years in the corporate world, she developed and founded her successful natural hair-care range Earthy_sa in 2014 which is recognized and available in every province in South Africa and now venturing to the rest of Africa and beyond, embarking on her entrepreneurial journey.

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As the brilliant founder of natural hair and body care company Earthy, Mummy found her voice and learned the importance of standing your ground as a young, black woman in corporate South Africa. She started to proudly wear her hair natural and one day decided to start a company that would create products which cater to women with kinky, curly, hard to manage hair.

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She’s undeniably an authentic speaker and natural motivational storyteller who will immediately capture and keep the audience’s attention, taking audiences on a journey through her moving life story and offers insights into the impact Millennials, women, technology and conservation have on the continent.

Keynote Topics:

• African Millennials, first world thinkers

• WOKE: Your business in the eye of the millennial

• Lose it all and climb up again

• Let’s agree to disagree: why diverse thinking can produce same thinking

• Technology, Conservation & Women: The 3 that can change it all