She’s the co-founder of two companies and one nonprofit organisation, volunteers at two other organisations, dabbles a bit with open-source hardware and still has time for single-player games on her PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360.Johannesburg-based Palesa Sibeko is part of a trio who started Girls Invent Tomorrow back in 2013, a nonprofit organisation that aims to empower, educate and mentor high-school girls."We started our organisation as a response to a global drive to get more women into technology and science careers," says Sibeko.Global chip maker Intel came on board as a sponsor for some of its projects in the past. This year it will partner with Ladies That UX (a meet-up of professional female designers in Joburg) and the Girls Fly Programme in Africa, which has a similar mission in the aviation and space sectors.The 36-year-old is also passionate about gaming, and started playing games at a young age. "I think I started when I was five or six years old; we were very fortunate t...
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