Botha’s Hill woman finalist in Dawn Day Spa competition

From over 100,000 entries, Sthembile Ngcobo (28), from Botha’s Hill, is one of the three finalists in The empowering Dawn Day Spa competition.

The Dawn Day Spa toured KwaZulu-Natal as well as several other provinces during the winter months providing a moment of pampering for consumers by providing relaxing head, neck and shoulder or hand massages. The end-goal of the campaign is to transform someone’s life and empower them to be a successful entrepreneur with the help of Dawn.

Sthembile and the other two finalists have each won a beauty course from the Beauty Therapy Institute that will teach them the skills they need to work in a beauty salon. The course will take place in early-2015.

The top performing finalist will win the grand prize of the entire Dawn Day Spa mobile container, valued at over R200,000 from which she will be able to run her own beauty business. Dawn will also provide business start up necessities, as well as free business support and mentorship for up to a year.

Sthembile is currently a contract worker for the local municipality but is also passionate about doing hair which she does part-time with the help of her sister.

“I am very excited about the beauty training. It will be good for me and give me a lot of experience and skills that I can use. It is amazing to be chosen as a finalist – I can’t believe I won!”

“I have always aspired to be an entrepreneur and I feel like Dawn is enabling me to have my own dream. I just want to tell all the women out there to never give up because life is full of surprises.”