Gcina

Gcina Mhlophe

By Laura Andrea Mejía
  • Born

    Born

    Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa.

  • First job

    She started her working life as a domestic servant. She started her working life as a domestic servant, later working as a newsreader at the Press Trust and BBC Radio, then as a writer for Learn and Teach, a magazine for newly-literate people.

  • acted in Black Dog: Inj'emnyama

  • Have You Seen Zandile? (autobiographical play)

  • International written

    She began to get a sense of the demand for stories while in Chicago

  • storytelling festival at the Market Theatre (there have been many since then)

  • performed Have You Seen Zandile? at the Edinburgh Festival

  • Ashoka Fellowship (social entrepreneurship innovator)

  • Poetry Africa, presenting poet

  • performed in Peter und der Wolf at the Komische Oper (Berlin)

  • Fudukazi's Magic screened in Durban at the African Union Film Festival

  • FIFA World Cup South African handover ceremony, Germany

  • she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women[3]