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Ek het ges\u00ea hulle het seker \u2019n fout gemaak met die uitnodiging en hy het net ges\u00ea aanvaar dit maar. By die aand van die prysuitdeling, toe ek my naam hoor, was ek regtig stom. Ek weet nou \u2019n mens moet groot droom en meer in jouself glo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Tonder se storie is sowaar een van deursettingsvermo\u00eb en toewyding deur die jare. Sy het 23 jaar gelede as geklassifiseerde tikster by <span>Weslander<\/span> begin, wat \u2019n \u201congelooflike uitdaging\u201d vir haar was. Sy vertel graag hoe die koerant in daai tyd dinge op die ou manier moes doen voordat tegnologie meer ontwikkel het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns het partykeer eers Donderdag- oggend n\u00e1 04:00 uit die kantoor gestap en met die Desember-koerante het ons 24-uur-skofte gehad. Ek het saam met my geklassifiseerde werk later begin blokkies (kleinadvertensies) verkoop en n\u00e1 die geboorte van my dogter het Stefan Kolver [destyds verkoopsbestuurder] my gevra of ek dit nie sal oorweeg om \u2019n verkoopsagent te word nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Tonder vertel dat sy effens aan haar vermo\u00eb getwyfel het, maar met leiding en ondersteuning het sy dit gou onder die knie gekry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk is nie een oomblik spyt dat ek daardie besluit geneem het nie. Vandag kan ek nie dink dat ek enigiets anders sal wil doen as dit wat ek nou doen nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weskus Media se uitgewer, Justin Cupido, s\u00ea van Tonder pak alles met \u2019n positiewe ingesteldheid aan en staan vir niks terug nie. \u201cHierdie energie werk deur na al haar kollegas. Haar kli\u00ebnte kry altyd vriendelike en professionele diens terwyl sy na hul beste belange omsien.\u201d Cupido beskryf haar as \u2019n staatmaker en een wat te alle tye die waardes van Weskus Media (<span>Weslander<\/span>, <span>Weskus Nuus<\/span>) en Media24 weerspie\u00ebl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Tonder het haar doelwit vir die boekjaar 2022-2023 met 48% oorskry en \u2019n jaar-op-jaar-groei van 29% in haar portefeulje behaal. \u201cDie toekenning wat aan haar toegestaan is, is welverdiend. Ons is verskriklik trots op haar prestasie. Haar deursettingsvermo\u00eb onder moeilike omstandighede kon nie op \u2019n beter manier erken word nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Tonder s\u00ea haar grootste ondersteuners is haar familie, vriende, kollegas en kli\u00ebnte. \u201cSonder hulle sou ek dit nie kon doen nie. Die koerant met sy spertye kan partykeer baie uitdagend wees en die gemoedere kan maar hoog loop. 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