Women across Africa keep soaring higher and higher. In many parts of Africa today and largely across the world, there is no least mention of women in leadership.
The common saying that, whatever men can do, women can equally do same is being proven by most women.
Over the past few years into the present, there have instances of women rising to the role of Country President, Country Vice President, Attorneys, and many others like the few mentioned.
To mention some of these high class female leaders of Africa, Slyvie Kiningi was former acting President of Burundi (February - October 1993).
Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburi acted as former President of South Africa, which happened when the President and his vice were out of the country for a four-day tour on September, 2005.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf served as former President of Liberia, which was from January, 2006 to January 2018.
Rose Francine Rogombe served as interim President of Gabon from June, 2009 to October, 2009 after the death of President Omar Bongo.
Agnes Monique Ohsan Bellepeau was the Acting President of Mauritius from March 31, 2012 to July 21, 2012.
Also, Catherine Samba Panza acted as Head of State of the Central African Republic from January, 2014 to March, 2016.
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, served as President of Mauritius from June, 2015 to March, 2018.
Currently as you read this article, the following women are still in power as President of their respective countries: Sahle-Work Zewde is President of Ethiopia, a role she assumed on October 2018 to date and Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania whose position as head of state began on March, 2021 to date.
Sahle-Work Zewde
Samia Suluhu Hassan
These have all been women who have proven that, in deed even in a male dominated circle, women can equally survive.
The story of young Lethabo Malesa, a 21-year-old commercial Pilot, from Seshego in Limpopo, South Africa, is no different.
By recent statistics, she forms part of the elite group of about 7% of females and as minimal as 1% of black female pilots across the world.
Her resilience motivated her to remain focused during her training routines to realize her dream. That paid off finally, when she obtained her commercial Pilot licence from Superior Pilot Services at Grand Central Airport in South Africa on December, 2022.
In an interview, she is remembered as having said, “I have always wanted to be a pilot from a young age. I would be inspired every time I saw a female captain in one of those old movies."
Further, she mentioned, “My love for aviation grew when I went to Polokwane International Airport on a school trip. When I saw those big birds, I knew that my dream was to one day soar the sky."
Again, she added, “I also knew being the first female pilot in my community would break stereotypes and inspire many young black women."
Her story is really an inspiration to listen to and read in any write up as you have just done.
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