Reality Check with Adv Thandi Orleyn: Women in Leadership - Structural and Self-Imposed Barriers

The National Briefing · Aug 13, 2026 · 7m

Question to probe: Which barriers are created by institutions, and which have women internalised and placed upon themselves - and why?

Purpose: Examine external and internal barriers together, while avoiding the suggestion that women are solely responsible for overcoming inequality.

Daily takeaway: Women should examine the limits they may have internalised, while organisations remove the conditions that create and reinforce those limits.

Guest: Adv. Thandi Orleyn - Chairperson of Impala Platinum (Implats), Founder of Peotona Group Holdings and President of the International Women’s…