Carmen Stevens received the 1659 Award for Visionary Leadership at this year's annual Wine Harvest Commemorative event.Groot Constantia Wine Estate in Cape Town.
Carmen Stevens received the 1659 Award for Visionary Leadership, Denise Stubbs was recognised in the category of Diversity and Transformation, Christine Rudman was recognised in the category of Wine Appreciation and Wine Advancements, and Francois Viljoen was recognised in the category of Viticulture and Wine Creation.
Stubbs grew up in the Boland as the daughter of agricultural labourers with a passion to give back to her community. When she became human resources manager at Diemersfontein Wine & Country Estate, she took an opportunity presented by owner David Sonnenberg to do that and ran with it by establishing the Thokozani Group of Companies alongside 65 farmworker shareholders.