MentorTalks: Becoming Bankable

What does financial literacy mean and why is it so important? What are the common pain points for people when dealing with their finances, especially for women in Africa? How do you set up a system so that bankers find you “bankable”?

Join Thubelihle Ndlovu - a social entrepreneur, banker, microfinance practitioner, ExchangeAlumni of the Mandela Washington Fellowship program, and one of Zimbabwe’s coordinators and facilitators for the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - on MentorTalks to hear these answers and more.

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About Thube Ndlovu - social entrepreneur, consultant, banker, and microfinance practitioner

Thubelihle Ndlovu is a social entrepreneur, consultant, banker, and microfinance practitioner, who is passionate about women and youth empowerment, as well as financial inclusion.

Thube successfully founded Purse on Point Africa, a project that came out of her participation in the “Strengthening Business and Trade for Women Entrepreneurs in Africa” Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar (TIES) in Ghana in 2019. Purse on Point was initially funded through a TIES grant by the U.S. Department of State. It now stands on its own, seeking to create African women changemakers by training them in financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Thubelihle is the Country Coordinator for Purse on Point Africa, which currently runs in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Thube has over a decade’s mastery in crafting and implementing women and youth entrepreneurship and financial inclusion programs, which have impacted a very significant number of women and youth in Zimbabwe and across Africa, by supporting them in enterprise start up and growth.

Thube is a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship alumna of the University of Nevada-Reno, in the Business and Entrepreneurship Track. She was selected as one of Zimbabwe’s coordinators and facilitators for the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE). AWE is a U.S. Department of State program that provides educational resources for women around the world to engage in U.S-style education with guided facilitation and localization from local alumni, women business leaders, and key interlocutors to ensure small business growth and success.

Thube has worked with a number of NGOs, as an implementing partner, facilitator, and mentor for their financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs.

She has professional and academic qualifications in entrepreneurship, business leadership, microfinance, banking, and finance.