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Aldecia Molaudzi: A Beautiful Soul

Monday, 22 August 2011 00:00

Beauty put a spell on human nature; whether abstract or tangible, we are all charmed by it. Even the idea of beauty is beautiful. From the Queen of Sheba to Nefertiti to the legendary Tselane; every culture, civilisation and society has its symbols of beauty that personify the genial craft of the Creator. Creation, therefore, is good enough proof that the creator exists.

Aledecia Molaudzi calls that source of life is God. At age three, she says she asked her mother why human beings exist and what the purpose of life is; her inquisitive mind led her to a path of revelations as she learnt about God and later had her first spiritual experience at age four. During a church service, as the congregation sang a popular chorus Re Ya o Boka Morena, Aldecia "came into contact with God"; a surreal experience not easily expressed by words, but she knew she had tapped into the spiritual realm and her life was never the same. Since that pivotal moment, her life revolved around possibilities and protection God offers regardless of one's situation.

Among a host of work she does, Aldecia is a young businesswoman living in Johannesburg, but originally comes from Tzaneen in Limpopo. She's half Venda, half Pedi and speaks every language imaginable. I almost felt like I was interviewing a United Nations interpreter as her phone kept ringing and had her switching from one language to another with ease.

Her earliest memory of beauty was observing her mother's sense of style and how meticulous she was in applying blush and mascara that Aldecia would mimic her every evening before she went to bed. On etiquette, she related a story of how she once came across a girl she was on class with, while in town with her mother, and she just said 'hi' to the girl without paying much attention to her and her mother gave her a detailed lecture on how she must always smile and maintain eye contact when greeting others.

Coming from an environment that had very few positive role models, Aldecia refused to put herself in a box that was her seemingly hopeless surroundings. During her high school career, she was inspired greatly by a motivational book "Dare to Dream" by Sally. When she reached Grade 10, she chose the Economics Sciences stream as she has always wanted to run a business of her own and was good in Accounting - which would have also allowed her to become a Chartered Accountant - but her teachers vetoed her decision and got her to take the Natural Sciences stream, saying she was too smart to be studying anything else.

Upon Matriculation, Aldecia studied BSc in Microbiology at the University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus; a course of study that required her to ditch her glamorous self for a plain white lab coat. She and I shared laughs as she spoke of how lab assistants would give her grief for her make-up landing in test tubes, while she applied it instead of concentrating on experiments at hand.

One might fall into deception of thinking Aldecia's life is a fairytale ride. "Far from it", she says! "I was a sad child and grew bitter as I grew older until after I graduated. I was discriminated a lot, even by members of my own family, for being the only skinny dark-skinned person among us. The word ugly popped up a lot in my childhood, but I refused to let that label who I am. On an odd occasion, I would get people calling me a dark beauty and that would help hold my head up high."

When she saw Peggy-Sue Khumalo crowned Miss SA, in 1996, Aldecia got an aha! moment and knew she wanted to become a beauty. She says she faced a stumbling block when the only reason she wasn't crowned Miss University of Limpopo 2005 was because of her lack of height and she was crowned 2nd Princess, but she wasn't deterred in her pursuit of greatness as she went on to do modelling and acting jobs until she started her own modelling and casting agency at the age of 21. Sethabi sa Borwa, commonly known as 2SAB Productions, does casting for Generations and has worked with Nando's, MTN, Coca-Cola, Eskom among a long list of established companies. She did MTN tv ad,Nandos tv ad, KFC TV advert to name a few. Being featured on HHP ft NaetoC Boogie Down music video, Slikour Phumelayinini, DJ Fisherman ft DJ Tira and Big Nuz Happy Song, P-Squared and Theo Kgosinkwe.