Siyabonga Magadlela

Siyabonga Magadlela is the President and Board Chairman for The Hope of Survivors—South Africa (THOS-SA). He is an ordained pastor with a B.A. in Theology from Helderberg College SA. He also holds a Counselling Certificate and an International Development Program Certificate from Andrews University USA.

Siyayibonga was born into the Maduna clan in the Village of Zazulwana in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. His mother is Adelaide Nolusapho Magadlela and his father was Samuel Sijekula Magadlela who died in 2000. Siyabonga attended school in the Village of Zazulwana after completing his matric in 1997, then he moved to Gauteng Province to look for employment, was hired to work at the Kelvinator factory, where he remained until 2005. Then he went to Helderberg College and, after completing his B.A. in Theology, he was employed by Trans-Orange Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as pastor in the Free State Province where he spent his first six years as a district pastor. During this time, he was involved in the community and he started a fraternal structure of pastors from different denominations, uniting the denominations in the community against Gender-Based Violence (specifically women and children) that was so common in the district. In 2015, he was elected as a Stewardship Director at the Conference.

It is Siyabonga’s passion to fight to protect the rights of the oppressed, abuse of woman and children, and the poor. This reason why he joined THOS-SA. He has a passion for helping those in need and he recognizes that THOS-SA has a great work to do in his country due to many abuses taking place. His dream is to be able to provide a safe home for victims of abuse.

Siyabonga is married to Nicola and they have two children.