Typing her speaker's script

The session also afforded her the opportunity to talk about the challenges she has met along the way and how she overcame some of them; her achievements, and both the low points and the high points in her 'rich' life. In one word, Kokorwe tells us who she is. It has been a fairy-tale journey for this woman who joined the civil service as a typist whose major function was to receive orders from bosses and transcribe handwritten scripts from them on a noisy Olivetti typewriter. But today the roles have been reversed Kokorwe is not receiving orders but gives out orders to members of parliament,
ministers and presidents.Hers has been a journey on a roller coaster, as she tells,
GIDEON NKALA. But how did it start?

Mmegi: Who is Gladys Kokorwe?