House of Canvex is a six-year-old interior textiles business based in Durban, South Africa with an ethos developed around creating quality products "without sacrificing local connection and environment". They are doing this with four revolutionary rPET (recycled...
Q&A: Ceramicist Lungiswa Joe channels her heritage through clay
Lungiswa Joe is a Cape Town ceramicist and the founder of the Inxwala Slow Market. While working at the Craft Design Institute, she was exposed to various creative mediums. It was the ancient medium of clay that captivated her. Lungiswa started her journey with...
Q&A with Jinae Heyns on how Matsidiso shoes take sustainable steps
Founded in 2017 on a calculated whim, Jinae Heyns left her marketing career to co-found the ethical shoe brand, Matsidiso. Jinae had approached her mother-in-law about the family's struggling dance-shoe factory which Jinae believed she could turn around. What makes...
We ask three elderly women about sustainability on Heritage Day
To commemorate Heritage Day, Twyg intern Nobanzi Sokhuthu spoke to three elderly family members about sustainability and about their memories of growing up in rural areas during apartheid. They were born in the Eastern Cape between 1947 (the year the Royal family...
Beauty Spot: Ori Organics uses indigenous knowledge to promote slow living
Indigenous practices are being displaced by fast-paced, consumerist lifestyles according to Denisha Anand who intends to slow down this pace, and to reconnect people to these practices. Her business, Ori Organics, is a handmade body and skincare brand. It is...
Q&A: Jeanius Platform on becoming an artivist during lockdown
Langa-based designer and photographer Anele Cephus Nono launched his denim brand, Jeanius Platform, as a social movement in 2016. With friends, he started it to raise awareness about student issues during the time of Fees Must Fall, a time of protests against the...