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YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE

INSPIRING MODEL

Interview
with the

LOVELY
AND

By Sharon Ndlovu
Q:What challenges have you
encountered as you are in the
path of modeling? And how do you
solve them?

PASSIONATE
Quite frankly a lot. I was told I was
too short and too dark for pageants.
MODEL
And that my beauty is not the real
deal, I felt so discouraged. Most
NOMTHANDAZO JADE
NDLOVU

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omthandazo is a lovely
and 22 year old dreamer,
believer and dreams
pursuer from Thulamahashe
Township, who is also a 3rd year
full time student at the
University Of Johannesburg. Her
love for pageants was due to
understanding its existence
which is to empower and uplift
all women in the world.

Q:When did you start being a
model?

I started when I was 17 years old,
would have started earlier but I was
discouraged by my peers.
Q:What have you achieved in
your modeling career? And titles
you have won?

I've been blessed, regardless of my
height and tininess. I hold 22 pageant
titles in which are 11 I'm a queen.
The biggest title I hold is Miss Vespo
Trading 2015.

especially after one of my early
pageants experience with a judge after
crowning me 1st runner up told me
that I will always get princess titles
because I'm short. I cried but I had to
dry my tears and use this as a
platform to inspire others in a similar
situation. I did just that and now I'm a
legend and role model in my
community and also outside
Mpumalanga but also Limpopo and
Gauteng. Faith and bravery is what
made me succeed.

Q:If it happens you enter a
pageant and you don't win, even
though you wanted the title so
much, what keeps you going and
not giving up? My passion for what

do keeps me going. I love what I do
and a crown and sash will never take
my passion for pageants away. I'm a
queen who doesn't need a crown to
define her. My hard work,
perseverance and love for what for
what I do is everything.

You have a heart for people
and doing charity projects, is it
something that you are
passionate about or you doing
it because you are a beauty
queen?

Giving is lifestyle and I was born in
to it. My family most especially my
mom is a giver. I love making a
difference in the lives of others
with no return or gain to me.
Others people's happiness in the
gap, I intend to fill is mine as well.
Where do you see yourself in
the next 5 years?

Been crowned miss universe after
my reign, graduating for my
master's degree and getting
married to the love of my life
How do you balance between
your modeling career and your
studies?

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School, my degree is my first
priority, I'm so committed to it
that I won't enter Miss South
Africa without finishing it 1st.

What message can you give to
young girls out there?

The sky is not the limit, because
there are footprints on the moon,
with that being said all dreams are
Q:How do you deal with criticism?
impossibly possible and achievable
Very well, my grandparents taught me only if you set your heart into
that it's not always about right or
them no matter what. The reason
wrong but by lesson. I listen to
behind the existence of pageants
everything people say about me even
which is women empowerment
though I know me. But sometimes it
and envisioning my self being part
helps because they talking about
things I don't know about me. But I do of such a great legacy.
this privately in the public eye I treat
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critics with a smile.