The Development and Spatial Planning (now encapsulated in the field of Town Planning) have an embedded history of being dominated and driven by men largely from the engineering and architectural disciplines, with its focus on “urban” planning. While over the years there’s been a slight transformation in terms of the involvement of Planners in development and spatial planning and most discouraging,the sector is still dominated by males when it comes to strategic development matters. With reasons that can attributed to both racial and gender imbalances and of course the perpetual marginalization of black women in particular. This is also compounded by the slow pace of transformation on major fronts, such as access to higher education, rigidity of the labour market for first time entry level graduate planners, incessant struggle of students coming from rural South Africa to access urban university life and adaptation due of course to the lack of career guidance back in secondary education level, lack of role models in communities of origin to provide the necessary guidance.