Matimba Glacia Makaringe
Youth in Business & Entrepreneurship
Nominee's Province:
Limpopo
Age:
35
Project Name/Description:
Founder – Courageous Cosmetics & Sistapreneur
Matimba Makaringe draws strength and inspiration from the women in her community. Her mission is to restore dignity and create opportunity through entrepreneurship. Raised in Nkowankowa, she saw up close what it takes to make ends meet in township life. That experience shaped her vision for Courageous Cosmetics and Sistapreneur, two platforms helping women access income, mentorship, and confidence. With a background in corporate communication, she understood the value of storytelling—but it was her own experience navigating gender bias and limited funding in manufacturing that became her most powerful message. “Faith, community, and sheer determination kept me going,” she says. Recognition followed, including being named one of the Mail & Guardian’s Power of Women in 2023. But for Matimba, real success lies in the lives she helps shift—a young woman starting a business, a child discovering their talent, a voice once silent gaining confidence. Today, she journals her journey, stays rooted in prayer, and dreams of scaling Courageous Cosmetics globally and turning Sistapreneur into a national, digitally accessible program. “I want to be remembered,” she says, “as a woman who showed others what’s possible.”
