Mbali Ndlovu Profiled

I would like to formally introduce myself as I will not do it on this platform ever again. Instead I will be enhancing my life.

I am a young, bold, enthusiastic woman who enjoys nothing more than to meet other people. I also love to blog, writing is my passion I gauge from previous experiences in life and I share what I can, what I deem plausible for others to know. People watching on social networks and occasionally at coffee shops, is exactly the things that keep me inspired. I value family values and loyalty. I am running my own race. I know that my calling is much greater than I have imagined in my head, and trusting in God I know I will reach my destiny. I pray you are blessed in my sharing.

I was raised in the backrooms of the servant courters (essentially 2 rooms) in a very luscious suburb called Westville in Durban South Africa. I was raised by the village being in the form of a church. A church that had people from all walks of life. My influences are therefore, European, Indian and Zulu.

My father passed away when I was very young and my mother raised me with assistance from this village and from a family, she worked for, the Jann family. You will hear plenty about this family and other families as time progresses.

I would like to place a disclaimer that I am not perfect. I don’t hold all the answers. However what I do know for sure is that I have been set up and raised up to speak the truth, defy racism and bring sexism to its knees. I also know that I am called to bring diversity to my society for the purpose of having my children live in the realness and abundance of who they are called to be without having to always question who they are.

Thank you for joining me in the dialogue that is life.

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