DESTINY magazine, South Africa’s first high-end monthly women’s magazine combining compelling business content with fashion, beauty and lifestyle, celebrates its November birthday issue with the launch of Destinyconnect.com.

The website www.destinyconnect.com went live on 27 October, to coincide with DESTINY magazine’s November issue hitting the shelves. On-site, readers can create a personal or business profile, free of charge, that will enable them to meet and network with like-minded women, promote themselves, and grow their businesses by creating new business and personal connections. They can also share their thoughts and aspirations via interactive blogs and forums. Destinyconnect.com users will also get brand-new DESTINY magazine-related content via DESTINY Weekly, and on DESTINY TV, which will showcase relevant business and lifestyle content and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from DESTINY events and features.

Says Khanyi Dhlomo, DESTINY’s Founding Editor and Managing Director of Ndalo Media: “We hope to grow Destinyconnect.com into South Africa’s leading online destination where female entrepreneurs, professionals, businesswomen and women with an interest in business can connect, support and empower themselves, and each other.”

Destinyconnect.com will offer online advertising opportunities for advertisers who wish to reach affluent, intelligent and dynamic women actively engaged in business.

Users who register and upload their profile, either personal or business, could receive a Montblanc watch worth R36 000. Furthermore, through an online activation campaign, users can also stand to win one of six Sony Ericsson T303 phones from Virgin Mobile for a period of six weeks. This will be promoted through online banners on selected sites and via a targeted viral email campaign.

The launch of Destinyconnect.com follows the ongoing success of DESTINY magazine which, Dhlomo says, “has been achieved despite tough market conditions, thanks to the publication’s unique value proposition and fantastic team.”

Dhlomo and her team continue to make dynamic strides with the publication, by introducing the first-ever DESTINY MAN supplement in the November issue. “To celebrate the male movers and shakers around us, we’ve developed DESTINY MAN, a one-off supplement for now, following requests from our male readers for their own guy-friendly version. Our team has put together great content and advertisers have given the supplement wonderful support. This is an initiative with a lot of future potential,” says Dhlomo.

“Together with the launch of Destinyconnect.com, the November birthday issue celebrates business-minded South African women and men – dynamic achievers with a strong interest in creating harmony between their business and lifestyle interests,” she concludes.

Visit www.destinyconnect.com for further information.

DESTINY’s November issue is now on sale nationwide and in select African countries.