Bio
Shalom Ncala is a South African AIDS activist and television presenter best known for hosting the HIV magazine series Siyayinqoba Beat It!, from 2006-2008.
Ncala was born in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg. She studied Human Resources Management through the University of Johannesburg.
In 2000, while struggling to find a job, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. On the 12th of December 2000, she discovered that she was HIV positive. Three months later, when her CD4 count dropped to 9, she immediately started taking ARVs.
In 2003, she started working as a health promoter at the University of Johannesburg. Presently she is working for the Aids Law Project as a receptionist/referral officer.
She is fluent in five languages: isiZulu, Northern Sotho, isiXhosa, Setswana and English.