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The South African High Commissioner to Ghana, Her Excellency Grace Jeanet Mason, has pledged the Commission's full support to the 2023 edition of the Forty Under 40 Africa Awards, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Xodus Communications Limited in May 2022, officially granted the license and the hosting right of the event to Black and White Attorneys in South Africa during a press conference at the Royal Baeng Residence in the Limpopo Province.

Speaking during a courtesy call on her by the Chief Executive Officer of Xodus Communications,  Mr. Richard Abbey Jnr., Her Excellency Grace Jeanet Mason said her outfit will support this Pan African idea of celebrating young achievers on the continent.

She advised that the event should be used as a tool to promote culture and tourism in South Africa.

"I am very honoured to see an entity in my province and country granted the license and the right to host the 2nd edition of the Forty under 40 Africa Awards", she said.

Her Excellency Grace Jeanet Mason commended Xodus Communications Limited for the initiative to encourage, empower and celebrate influential young businessmen and women on the continent.

She called on young business leaders under the age of forty to participate in the 2023 edition to experience  South Africa.

The Chief Executive  Officer of Xodus Communications Ltd, Richard Abbey Jnr., thanked the High Commissioner for the warm reception and the pledge to support the event.

"The uniqueness about the 2023 edition is that it will be a five-day event comprising tourism at the Safari, an entrepreneurs’ business summit and exhibition in Pretoria and Gauteng, and finally climaxed with an Awards night in Cape Town" he noted.

The Forty Under 40 Africa Awards seeks to identify, honour and celebrate a cross-section of the continent’s most influential and accomplished young business leaders under the age of forty from a wide range of industries.