Xabiso Lombo

Xabiso Lombo is a South African founder of Guardian Gabriel, a wearable panic button which works independently of the cellphone.

Her great passion for  entrepreneurship has seen her being invited to numerous entrepreneurship panels, including the African Business and Social Responsibility Forum in Mauritius. Xabiso is currently under the RedBull Amaphiko Entrepreneurship Academy.

Growing up in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape as the youngest of three sisters she would complete her schooling there before moving to Cape Town to study a degree in BCom Accounting at the University of Cape Town. Xabiso Lombo had an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age even though she didn’t that it was called entrepreneurship at the time, she always had ideas to make money at school, such as selling nail polish remover to students at the beginning of the term or selling textbooks on behalf of other students and taking a commission.

She got the idea for her project when there was an outbreak of missing persons during her second year of studies, as well as an increase in on-campus crime which made her afraid for her safety. Asking herself what she would in a dangerous situation and not having answers made her research for options, not finding viable ones and deciding that she had to develop something herself.