Zola Nombona (born 10 March 1991),[1] is a South African actress best known for her role as Shado, a streetwise teenager, in the second season of the SABC 1 drama series Intersexions in 2013.
In 2021 the actress joined Generations: The Legacy playing the character of Pamela Khoza; a vicious journalist and wife of Siyanda Khoza opposite Vusi Kunene,Manaka Ranaka.
[2] In 2023 Zola was cast as lead actor in Mzansi Magic new telenovela My Brother's Keeper opposite Wiseman Mncube and Lindani Nkosi[3] She went to Victoria Girls' High School, Grahamstown, before achieving a bachelor and an honours degree in dramatic arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
[4][5] Nombona's first major role was on a drama series Intersexions based on HIV/Aids on SABC 1 in 2013.
[2] She also starred as Monde on Lockdown,[4][6] a television drama series set in a fictional high security prison for women.