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The Rise to Entrepreneurship with Sihle Tshabalala

By Aspiring Black Leaders

Thu Aug 2, 18:00 - Thu Aug 2, 20:00

Block B, 5th Floor, (Woodstock Exchange), 66 – 68 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925

ABOUT

Join us as we chat to Sihle about his life and journey into entrepreneurship.


Sihle Tshabalala (Co-founder and CEO Quirky 30 NPC and Quirky Innovations PTY/LTD ) is an ex-offender. During his time in prison, he became a key member of the Group of Hope programme (a prisoner-initiated project that changed prison rehabilitation in SA), where he decided to spend his life helping others avoid the mistakes he had made. Since leaving prison, he co-founded Brothers for All, taught himself how to code and has become a key voice in his community and a game changer in teaching high school dropouts, teenage moms, unemployed youth, ex-offenders and offenders Computer Programming/Coding, Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing.

Sihle has spoken widely on TV and radio, presented at the Durban AIDS conference, was awarded the 2014 LeadSA’s Hero, Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans award, 2015 Spark Changemaker award, 2016 WSA International Speaker, Juror and Mentor, 2016 TEDx Fellow, 2017 Africa Social Innovation Leadership Award, 2018 Rotary Vocational Award, 2018 VivaTech Conference International Speaker, Redbull Amaphiko Academy seasoned Mentor/Speaker and Levi's Pioneer Nation Mentor/Speaker. 2018 nominee for the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.


Event Format: 

18:00: Arrival, networking & drinks 
18:30: Fireside Chat with Sihle Tshabalala
19:15: Q&A/ Open discussion with the audience
19:45: Close, networking & drinks



 

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The Rise to Entrepreneurship with Sihle Tshabalala
Block B, 5th Floor, (Woodstock Exchange), 66 – 68 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925
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