Gcina
Mhlophe - Poet, Storyteller, Motivational Speaker,
MC and Keynote Speaker - Durban
Gcina Mhlophe (1959 - ) Born in Hammarsdale,
KwaZulu-Natal, Mhlophe now lives in Durban. Gcina
Mhlophe has been writing and performing on stage and
screen for over 20 years. She has written many
children's books as well as adult audience poetry,
short stories and plays. She produced and performed
on a CD for children with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
She has written music for the SABCTV series Gcina &
Friends where she performed her own stories for
television audiences.
Gcina Mhlophe
Gcina Mhlophe-Becker is South Africa’s favourite
storyteller.
Storytelling has become a popular business medium
for conferences and seminars and Gcina is a master
at creating stories to compliment business themes.
Gcina maintains storytelling is the information
technology of yesteryear. “For as long as there have
been people in the world, there have been stories –
long before all the great respectable sciences were
known to us".
Gcina Mhlophe
Poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's
favourite storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe has been
writing and performing on stage and screen for the
past 23 years. Encouraged during her childhood by
her grandmother to let her imagination run wild,
Gcina started writing and telling her stories. She
produced and performed in the collaboration CD for
children with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in
1993, and has written the music and stories for the
SABC TV series, Gcina & Friends. In 2000 she
released an award-winning storytelling CD entitled
Fudukazi's Magic for German audiences, which
was also produced for video in collaboration with
Anant Singh of VideoVision Entertainment.
Gcina Mhlophe
In 2001 her CD and book, Nozincwadi Mother of
Books, was produced as part of her nationwide
reading road show to South African rural schools.
Gcina feels that the well-known traditional tales of
Africa have worldwide appeal, as they recur in
different versions in many other parts of the world.
Gcina's writings have been translated into German,
French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese.
Gcina Mhlophe
Her honours include:
BBC Africa Service Award for Radio Drama,
The Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Festival,
Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago,
OBBIE in New York, and
Honorary Doctorates from London Open University
and University of Natal.
Sony Award for Best Acresss, Britain
The play, Have You Seen Zandile? was first
performed at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, in
1986, with Gcina as Zandile. She was awarded the
Sony Award when the play was performed there as
a Radio drama for BBC Africa Service. In Love
Child, a fascinating retrospective collection of
stories, Gcina shares her personal journey through
the social and political landscapes of the 1980s.
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Gcina
Mhlophe - Poet, Storyteller, Motivational Speaker,
MC and Keynote Speaker - Durban
