Meet The Team
Jabulile Ratsibe is a co-founding director of Celebrate Life Foundation. Her involvement with non-profits started in 2006 where she was a volunteer at Akani Diepsloot Foundation, before ultimately becoming its Director. Her passion for education and women development extended to participation in various mentorship programmes, including the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and “A Girl like Alice”. She also co-founded Akani Metmar school, a low fee independent school and held the post of Director for five years, before focusing her efforts on Celebrate Life Foundation after her siblings were diagnosed with cancer.
Jabulile is currently the Head of Enterprise and Supplier Development at Sasol. She has served in various Supply Chain roles within the company for over 21 years. She is passionate about serving in the community.
Jabulile Ratsibe
Pindiwe Filtane is the Founder and Managing Director of Mbasane Women in Information Technology, a company that focuses on skills development and training predominantly for young women. She is an entrepreneur with over 25 years working experience, and 11 of those years she has been leading and managing her own businesses.
Pindiwe has recently taken on the challenge to upskill unemployed ICT graduates so they can be employable and compete globally or explore the entrepreneurial route. This initiative is aimed at improving the lives of the South African youth and has a direct impact towards the country’s economy.
Pindiwe is also a co-founder of Celebrate Life foundation where she volunteers time and resources on fundraising and cancer awareness activities.
Pindiwe Filtane
Thembeka Poswa is the Programme Director for Infrastructure Projects in the Coega Development Corporation (CDC), she has a background in Building and Surveying and has been working on the field since 1996.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2011 and had to undergo radiation and hormone therapy. Her experience has made her to be passionate about the need to reach out to cancer patients and communities at large to provide support and provide necessary information about the importance of screening.
Thembeka holds a National Diploma in Building Surveying from the Cape Peninsula Technikon as well as the B Tech in Quantity Surveying from the Port Elizabeth Technikon.
Thembeka Poswa
Vuyiswa Ncontsa is the Fund Manager: Basic Education for the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.
Previously, she was the Regional Director for Southern Africa for African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) and has served as the CEO at BRIDGE, an NPO that connects stakeholders and innovators in education. Vuyiswa has 20 years of education experience and has run her own consultancy, specifically focusing on governance strengthening and project and programme management. Having worked for the ELMA Philanthropies, Vuyiswa has grantmaking experience, programme design and management and extensive government relationship management experience.
Until recently, she was the Deputy Chairperson of the National Association of Social Change Entities in Education (NASCEE), an association that builds a high-quality equitable education system in South Africa. She sits on the boards of the Global Teacher Institute, the Hotazel Manganese Mining Education Trust, and the Celebrate Life Foundation.
Vuyiswa Ncontsa
Our Mission
Advocating for early detection by creating cancer awareness to empower, uplift and support communities in the Eastern Cape.
Our value proposition
We address healthcare disparities by creating awareness in a way that resonates with diverse populations reaching last mile communities.
Our commitment to reducing the stigma and demystifying the myths about cancer in rural communities is anchored by actively collaborating with healthcare professionals and community leaders to amplify our impact.
We do this by providing:
Celebrate Life Foundation is a registered non-profit company (PBO No:930056971)
which is run and managed by a board of directors who assist on a purely voluntary basis.
Celebrate Life Foundation operates on donations received from the public.