Dr Vuyolwethu C. Ntola was born in the Eastern Cape on January 22nd. He completed his High School (secondary) education at eNtsikeni Secondary School in uMzimkhulu in 2003. In 2008, he graduated with his MBChB from Walter Sisulu University and completed his internship at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital (NMAH) between 2009 and 2010. After this, in 2011, he worked at Frontier Hospital and Madzikane Memorial Hospital and thereafter was appointed Medical officer at NMAH in 2012. In 2012, Dr Ntola joined the registrar program at NHLS in chemical pathology. However, his love of clinical medicine led him to pursue this route instead of engaging in laboratory medicine. The following year, in 2013, Dr Ntola was appointed medical officer at Port Shepstone Provincial Hospital, Madzikane Ka-Zulu Memorial Hospital and NMAH. He worked at NMAH until September 2015 and then decided to move to Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, where he worked as a medical officer. In 2017, Dr Ntola joined a registrar program in the General Surgery Department in UKZN/ DOH KZN. After completing his MMED at UKZN and the FCS (SA) exams, Dr Ntola registered as a specialist. In 2020, he was appointed as a specialist at Addington Hospital for two months before he specialised in vascular surgery at IALCH. In 2022, Dr Ntola attained his postgraduate certificate in Vascular Surgery after completing training in this specialised area of medicine.

Being passionate about research, Dr Ntola is in charge of supervising three MMED students. He is also interested in public health and rural medicine and would like to practise in a deep rural hospital. Besides practising medicine and training MMED students, Dr Ntola enjoys playing soccer. He owned a soccer team but put that passion on hold to pursue his love of medicine.