1991, Ashoka Fellowship (social entrepreneurship innovator).co-ordinator at READ, a national literacy organization.1989–1990, resident director at the Market Theatre.1990, performed Have You Seen Zandile? at the Edinburgh Festival tour through Europe and the USA.1989, performed a poem in honour of Albert Luthuli, 1960 Nobel Peace Prize winner.1989, storytelling festival at the Market Theatre.1986, Have You Seen Zandile? (autobiographical play, at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Mhlophe as Zandile).1983, took the lead in Umongikazi: The Nurse, by Maishe Maponya.Mhlophe currently serves as the patron of ASSITEJ South Africa, the International Association for Theatre for Children and Young People. Mhlophe currently serves as the patron of the ASSITEJ South Africa, the International Association for Theatre for Children and Young People. This initiative, established in 2002, is a collaboration with the Market Theatre and READ, a national literacy organization. The realisation of her dreams is a visceral motivator for her and she is passing on her infectious enthusiasm by developing young talent to carry forward the work of storytelling through the Zanendaba ( Bring me a story) Initiative.
Mhlophe's stories meld folklore, information, current affairs, song and idiom. Mhlophe has travelled extensively in Africa and other parts of the world giving storytelling workshops. Since then Mhlophe has appeared in theatres from Soweto to London and much of her work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese. Still, Mhlophe only began to think of storytelling as a career after meeting an Imbongi, one of the legendary poets of African folklore, and after encouragement by Mannie Manim, the then-director of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg.
She performed at a library in a mostly-black neighbourhood, where an ever-growing audience kept inviting her back. She began to get a sense of the demand for stories while in Chicago in 1988. She started her working life as a domestic worker, 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. Gcina Mhlope was born in 1958 in KwaZulu-Natal to a Xhosa mother and a Zulu father.
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