From South Africa's most famous divorcée who still leads in the style stakes to a rising comedian looking like she'd just stepped out of the gym, a broadcaster who survived Hlaudi times at the SABC to our most successful beauty queen - on Tuesday I was surrounded by an eclectic mix of the land's women movers and shakers.
Called Women in Business, the Women's Day event marked the 1956 march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria of about 20,000 sheroes to protest against the apartheid pass laws.Then it's inside the room, all tastefully decked out in the "black with a touch of gold" colour scheme, where I find Edith Venter, that divorcée who in 1994 famously snared the county's then biggest divorce settlement (R12-million) from hubby No2, Bill Venter.
I ask 67-year-old Edith - who's sporting a great A-line gold skirt hiding her famous legs - about hubby No4, Johnny Schwartz, and the event planner and philanthropist answers rather coyly: "He's out and about."
With no Johnny around, I can lay claim to being the room's token male, and go on to chat to Morning Live presenter Leanne Manas, who has had more SABC bosses than Edith has had husbands, all the way from Peter Matlare and Dali Mpofu to the recently exited Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
I comment on the gold circlet Leanne is wearing over her hair and she says it's her nod to the day's theme, "Own Your Throne".Speaking of thrones, in walks undoubtedly the country's most successful beauty queen, Basetsana Kumalo - a regular fixture of this column and the woman who, as the executive chairwoman and CEO of Basetsana Women Investment Holdings, is the keynote speaker...