Nelly Mkhawane

Contact: +27 62 272 3997

Email: nellysmkhawane01@gmail.com

Biography

Nelisiwe Salmitar Mkhawane is an accredited Arts Administrator with CATHSSETA and the connection point of Ebhudlweni Arts Centre, she enjoys working with young people, grooming

and empowering their character into greater human beings, through her Administration and

Project Management skills she contributes positively to her community and to the corporate

world.

Some of Mkhawane’s achievements include her being the preferred female chosen to

represent her secondary school in a girl’s camp twice in 2007 and 2008 for Take a Girl Child

to Work Project. Added to her variety of knowledge and skills Mkhawane studied plumbing

and construction in addition to a much-needed Life Skills course in 2016. She has completed

the Youth in Arts Leadership Programme (YALP) with the Forgotten Angle Theatre

Collaborative (FATC) which focused on amongst other things, Leadership, Proposal writing,

Project Management and Business in the Arts. Nelisiwe believes that there it nothing ever

too hard, you just need to set a goal and go for it.

Mkhawane has worked with world-renowned individuals such as PJ Sabbagha who is a

founding member and Artistic Director of FATC, Athena Mazarakis, Educator Choreographer

and a female activist who is currently the Momenteur of the OS Academy at The Centre for

the less Good Idea Dr Mongezi Makhalima who is a Lecturer: Leadership, Life Coaching,

Facilitating & Organizational Development at The Coaching Community.

Through her experiences of shadowing the above-mentioned individuals she has managed

to mentor others in applying for funding bodies, she is also an NAC beneficiary and those in

the workspace at FATC. Some of her attributes include respect, discipline, and

empowerment of the youth and all those will no doubt hold her in good stead in passing on

her skills, knowledge and experience to others in pursuit of making a difference in the

creative and cultural industries.