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Thandekile Songeziwe Nyembezi was born in Pietermaritzburg. Which lies in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province in South Africa. She is the only child of Sipho Mlungisi Twala and Sibongile Kate Nyembezi. Her parents were never married but found the love of their lives outside of the creation of Thandekile with Nosicelo Mlambo and Tlhopheho Modise respectively.

Sibongile is the second daughter of Sibusiso Cyril Nyembezi (CLS Nyembezi) and Muriel Deliwe Nyembezi (born Kazi). She is the fourth child of five children (Busiswe, Ntuthuko, Sipho, Sibongile, Thandeka) and her pregnancy was not received well by the family given their societal standing in the community. Sipho was a member of the ANC movement Mkhonto we Sizwe " The Spear of the Nation" which was the military arm of the African National Congress, which meant his presence was limited and Sibongile was required to raise Thandekile on her own. This would be a trying task given the period of apartheid which engulfed the country and the impact it would have on all parties involved. Therefore Sibongile had to find a path that was non existent; raising an illegitimate child in the height of apartheid of a fugitive father, during a period where her parents where pious citizens in their community. Even though it wasn't overt, her ostracization from the family was not a secret and Thandekile, being innocent would be her only saving grace and source of entry back into the family.

Thandekile was raised by her grandparents Sibusiso and Deliwe while her mother Sibongile finished her University career at the University of Swaziland (which was the closeest instituion which discriminate accoridng to race). At the age of six she moved to England to stay with her mother's older sister Busisiwe; who was already living with her son Mpumelelo Mdhaldhla and younger brother's daughter Mhlekazi Nyembezi.

Busisiwe was taking care of her children (Mpumelo Mdhladhla) and her younger siblings children (Mhlekazi Nyembezi & Thandekile Nyembezi) while living in Orpington; England