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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
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Have You Seen Zandile? (autobiographical play)
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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)
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performed Have You Seen Zandile? at the Edinburgh Festival
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Ashoka Fellowship (social entrepreneurship innovator)
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Poetry Africa, presenting poet
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performed in Peter und der Wolf at the Komische Oper (Berlin)
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Fudukazi's Magic screened in Durban at the African Union Film Festival
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FIFA World Cup South African handover ceremony, Germany
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she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women[3]
