{"id":337719,"date":"2019-08-30T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=337719"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:22:23","slug":"south-africas-first-black-female-combat-pilot-on-being-an-awe-inspiring-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/337719\/south-africas-first-black-female-combat-pilot-on-being-an-awe-inspiring-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s first black female combat pilot on being an awe-inspiring woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Mandisa Mfeka is the first black female combat fighter pilot in the country. She\u2019s also well-known for her part in the air display during President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s inauguration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more on DStv\u2019s #WomenAre campaign<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the set of a recent DStv campaign, she spoke a bit about the pressure to conform to fit in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of the women on set, who included model and activist Thando Hopa, Banyana captain Janine van Wyk and Supersport presenter Motshidisi Mohono were asked to come up with a single word to describe women, for Women\u2019s Month. Mandisa chose: awe-inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am a Hawk pilot &#8211; a Hawk Mk120 Commander, says Mandisa. And when you\u2019re in a male-dominated field or a field where you\u2019re a pioneer or you\u2019re the first one in line, you want to try to assimilate to what is already there, and sometimes you can lose yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStand in your truth, be authentic and give from your gifts and that\u2019s how you can be awe-inspiring as a woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dstv.co.za\/women\">Check out this playlist of DStv favourites inspired by Mandisa \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s some behind the scenes footage of her in the DStv #WomenAre campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#WomenAre | Women&#039;s Month short film - DStv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9xqhfHGFIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Not at home to watch DStv?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch DStv on your phone or laptop. Download the DStv Now app (<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/za\/app\/dstv-now\/id467168196\">Apple<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.dstvmobile.android&amp;hl=en_ZA\">Android<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) or visit <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now.dstv.com<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Mandisa Mfeka talks about the pressure to fit in and how to inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":337733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[14245,26],"class_list":["post-337719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-connected-video","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337719"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337751,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337719\/revisions\/337751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}