Nonkululeko gobodo biography examples

Nonkululeko Gobodo (b.1960) was the first black female to qualify as a chartered accountant in South Africa.

The profession is notoriously difficult to enter, and black females remain under-represented. At the start of her career, she was offered a position at one of the “Big Four” auditing firms but decided to start her own company, Gobodo Incorporated.

Twenty-five years later, the two largest black-owned accounting firms in the country, one of which was Gobodo Incorporated, merged to create Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo, with Gobodo as Executive Chairperson. Now aged 62, she continues her pioneering ways as she transitions to focusing on individual and team coaching in the context of authentic leadership, women, and race inequality.

This psychobiographical case study explored, described, and interpreted Gobodo’s occupational and organisational choices, and her early, middle, and late care