Founded in 2019, Twyg began as a fashion blog and has since evolved into a respected and trustworthy voice in the African sustainability movement. Today, we are a member of the press council* and create editorial content, curate events, run change-making projects and convene conversations that shift how we live, what we wear and how we care for people and the planet.
We tell stories that spotlight ethical designers, circular innovators and indigenous knowledge keepers. We celebrate creative experimentation and challenge extractive norms in both industry and culture. And we offer practical tools, from repair workshops and brand directories to sustainability guides, to help people and businesses take action.
From the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards, the Slow Fashion Festivals and Refashion Lab, to longform credible reporting, educational campaigns and our directory of sustainable African makers, Twyg is where purpose, cultural and personal expression and systems change meet.
We proudly contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 12 and are listed in the UN Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook as a leading example of responsible media practice.
Together we are designing a more sustainable tomorrow.
Twyg is pronounced twig which means “a new branch or shoot” or “getting wise”.
Production Journalist
Andie is a versatile writer who draws on her background as a fashion designer, textile artist and craft teacher to explore the world of sustainable fashion. Having cut her teeth in the glossy pages of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, she has since become committed to the slow fashion movement, both through writing and making and mending her clothes.
Andie is the founder of Cape Town Craft Club, where she hosts community-focused craft meetups. She is also a broadcast journalist and the host of Two Freaks Notice, one of Spotify Africa’s top ten new podcasts and the Bronze winner in the Comedy category at the 2024 South African Podcast Awards
Strategic Partnership Manager
It’s Twyg’s deep dedication to sustainable fashion, rich storytelling and positive company culture that are some of the main ‘why’s for Benn Ndzoyiya. Benn is responsible for connecting and sharing Twyg’s work with key supporters (organisations).
Benn spent his childhood between the towns of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape, and coastal Swakopmund in Namibia, which he believes instilled his love for all-round mindfulness. His qualification as a writer resulted in more than 10 years of experience holding various roles in local lifestyle media. At Twyg, he continues to learn about the broader scope of sustainability in Africa and ways to drive ethical fashion on the continent.
Fibresmith & Writer
Holly is a fibresmith, writer, and multidisciplinary problem solver. At Twyg, she researches and writes explainers that break down complex ideas into clear, accessible stories.
She studied Environmental and Geographical Science at UCT, and spent her Honours researching regenerative wool farming in the Karoo. When she’s not falling down research rabbit holes, Holly makes clothes, hosts mending workshops, and teaches sewing at Streetscapes for the Refashion Lab. You can follow her creative work on Instagram (@heywhiterabbit).
Founder and Editor
Jackie has worked in big and medium-sized mainstream media organisations for more than 20 years. She launched Twyg in 2018. At the core of the content she publishes on the platform is a commitment to exploring ways we can live well now while ensuring a kinder, inclusive, nature-friendly future for all. When she’s not producing content for her site, she works with Refashion Lab exploring inclusive and repurposed fashion. Jackie is a graduate of Stellenbosch University, University of South Africa and University of London. In 2020, she graduated with a PGDip from the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University. She is currently studying for an MPhil Sustainable Development.
Graphic Designer & Social Media Manager
Kirsten is a freelance creative who enjoys working on projects that help us to navigate the complexities of living in the climate crisis. She is drawn to bold, defiant action that reimagines how we live together in the Anthropocene. Guided by kindness, Kirsten works towards designing futures where the balance between people and planet is not just imagined, but lived.
Contributing Fashion Producer and Director
Cape Town-based mythmaker and multi-hyphenate, works in fashion, film and phrasing. They create mythologies which seek to re-interpret the past to re-imagine a possible future, working as a creative director, stylist and fashion writer, wordsmith and filmmaker. Their directorial debut and the first in a series, CABIN FEVER, was released in 2020. Their contributions to Twyg are as much about unlearning what’s problematic as they are about learning solutions for community-based living. Ky’s work asks only one thing: that you look at the future with clear eyes: not what is or what has always been; but what should be and what can be. Where to from here? Let’s work that out together!
Production Assistant
Nobanzi Sokhuthu was born in Tsolo in the Eastern Cape where she was surrounded by mountains and brightly coloured dwellings. Her childhood dreams of becoming a biochemist or a pilot were diffused by reality. But these everyday realities motivated her to work hard. She graduated with a diploma in electronic engineering and worked as a teacher’s assistant before joining the Afrika Tikkun skills development program. Through this program she was placed as an intern with Twyg. Here, she ensures deadlines are met, projects are administrated and she produces content. Nobanzi likes a good challenge and to nourish her curiosity and learn new skills. She loves fashion, reading and watching movies.
Founder and Editor
Sonya was born in northern KwaZulu-Natal near a river that pooled into a dam under the Lebombo Mountains. She’s never forgotten how warm air, bird calls, flowing water, good company and wilderness can feed a deep sense of wellbeing. Travel has been thread running through her life. She taught English in South Korea, edited three versions of local British Airways’ on-flight magazines and, eventually, Getaway magazine. After completing a PGDip at the Sustainability Institute in Stellenbosch, the seed of a new idea was planted: a sustainable travel platform that could reshape how we explore the world. Now feels like the right moment to bring that vision to life.
Fashion Editor
Tandekile Mkize is a fashion stylist with a distinct South African visual narrative. He contributes to a visual vernacular that intimates black love and limitless possibilities. His fashion and wardrobe styling has been featured in Jeremy Loops “In This Town” music video featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo and multiple publications. He reflects the future of fashion as sustainable and champions local fashion brands and labels. Mkize is the artistic director of digital fashion production house, Thug Alchemy which is a space for mixed-media experimentation that especially empowers young black creatives through collaboration to develop a community of young, black creative talent.
Aaniyah is the founder and director of The Beach Co-op, a not-for-profit company on a mission to eliminate, reuse, redesign and recycle single-use plastic, which often lands up in our oceans and on our beaches. Throughout her career, Aaniyah has focused on connecting people to nature. Before founding the Beach Co-op, she spent a few years nurturing a young family. Preceding that, she worked for WWF SA for almost a decade where she helped launch and manage their marine programme. She has since consulted to WWF on consumer and restaurant engagement with single-use plastics. She has a PhD in Education.
Tshepo Bhengu is the co-founder and the chief of operations of The Rewoven Company, a textile business pioneering the future of textile production in South Africa. Rewoven’s vision is to recycle textile waste and manufacture 100% recycled fabrics. Tshepo is also the co-founder and director of Future of Fashion, a two-day indaba in South Africa that provides a platform for key stakeholders in the clothing industry to collaboratively learn and share solutions that can contribute to the development of a thriving, ethical, and future-fit African fashion industry. Tshepo strives to lead responsibly towards creating sustainable solutions that will contribute towards the environment and a society with an improved sense of well-being. Tshepo holds a BCom degree in Financial Accounting from the University of Cape Town.
Solange Rosa is an independent consultant, Associate Faculty and Senior Policy and Strategy Adviser with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town (UCT). Her clients include Human Rights Watch, International Labour Organisation, Rockefeller Foundation, DG Murray Trust, and National Departments of Education and Economic Development. She teaches on Executive Education and MBA programmes at the UCT Graduate School of Business and the UCT School of Economics. She has a Doctorate in Law from the University of Stellenbosch and a Masters degree in Law from the University of Cape Town.
Gary is an interdisciplinary creative director, product designer and published writer based in Cape Town. He was the founding editor and creative director of Wanted, Business Day’s multiple award-winning luxury lifestyle magazine, and Elle Decor South Africa’s first editor-at-large. When he is not designing or collaborating with talented local artisans, Gary is the editor-at-large for Wanted and the Sunday Times focusing on horology, classic cars, art, design and sustainable design practices. With an earlier career as an architect in London followed by product designing and manufacturing, he not only has an appreciation for good design but an understanding of the production processes involved for best possible practice.