Change Course

Gqibelo is the CEO of the Future of the African Daughter project (FOTAD), a nonprofit girl child development project, working with teens in townships and rural areas of South Africa. She also co-founded the Bongolesizwe Tintswalo Theatre project (BTTP), a programme within FOTAD focused on unemployed but trained young performing artists.

She started her career as a banker, but her heart wasn’t in it. Instead it lay with young girls in rural areas of her country, girls she knew who didn’t know her, young girls who needed a helping hand, motivation, and guidance to prepare them for a successful future. So her career changed direction. Her own experience is the reason why Gqibelo will speak about the fact that there are always opportunities to change direction, and not worrying about being set on a particular path.