Malibongwe Xaba

Malibongwe Xaba, Known to friends and colleagues as “Mally”, Malibongwe is an energetic and inspirational speaker, author and youth motivator, who has worked with young people all over South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. In 2009, while volunteering at The Salvation Army’s Mission Team, he served as team leader for youth teams from the USA and Australia. The following year he founded an organisation, Youth with a Brighter Future (‘YBF’), which aims to motivate teens and young adults to take a stand and make a difference, to be respected citizens in the community, and to achieve their dreams in life. He joined the Unexa team early in 2013 and, in addition to contributing strongly to the development of Unexa’s vision and strategy, has served as co-presenter of the Expanded Awareness Programme™ to a group of more than 50 inmates at the Westville Prison, close to Durban, one of South Africa’s largest cities. Despite having grown up in one of the poorest townships in South Africa, Mally’s message, always delivered with power and passion, is consistently one of self-belief, possibility and positive expectation.