Zandile Ndhlovu, also known as the ‘black mermaid’ is the first black free-diving instructor in South Africa. For Zandile, it’s not about being defined by ‘the black box’ as she calls it, or the ‘women box’. It’s about using those labels as a diving board, allowing others to leap into depths that their cultural backgrounds have previously shied away from. … Continue reading The Black Mermaid – for anyone who fears the unknown