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Happy By Nature’s top 6 organically-grown indigenous plants for your home

Indoor plants are a great way to bring nature into the home. But when thinking about which plant to choose, do you consider whether or not it is local, and how it was grown? If you do, you will have...

August 11, 2020

Equality. Are we there yet? We asked 6 eco-warrior women

Opinion

Equality. Are we there yet? We asked 6 eco-warrior women

Sixty four years ago today, women staged one of the largest demonstrations in South Africa’s history: 20 000 women marched to Pretoria’s Union Buildings to present a petition to prime minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom to protest the apartheid pass laws....

August 9, 2020

Fashion

18 Fashion brands ensuring South Africans don’t break the law

In this article you will find a non-exhaustive list of sustainable fashion brands in South Africa who recognise their responsibility to give back through properly made masks that are made to prescribed government standards.

July 19, 2020

Youth Day 2020: “Knowing that your life is less valued is scary.”

Opinion

Youth Day 2020: “Knowing that your life is less valued is scary.”

The world is hurting. Covid-19. Economic collapse. Systemic racism. Young black women and men are on the frontlines. This Youth Day, Twyg asked nine young creatives who we’ve featured recently to tell us what it all means for them. Siphelele...

June 16, 2020

The Covid coat offers upcycled protection

Fashion

The Covid coat offers upcycled protection

Cape Town-based design and manufacturing studio, The Sewing Café, is taking care of front-liners and commuters to help keep them safe with these affordable, practical, comfortable and easy-to-sanitise coats and suits made from upcycled banner ads. The Sewing Café’s Athene...

June 11, 2020

Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

Features

Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

We live in a throw-away culture. Globally, people throw away about 3.5 million tons of waste a day – an estimated 880 000 tons of this is plastic. Businesses produce goods for sale and the packaging for those goods. We...

July 22, 2019

Why you should give up these 3 items this Plastic Free July

Features

Why you should give up these 3 items this Plastic Free July

Peter Ryan has been studying the impact of plastic on marine life since the 1980s. Here he explains why The Beach Co-op, WWF South Africa and Twyg are challenging South Africa to give up certain plastics this July. Peter is...

July 1, 2019

Fashion

12 Fast facts about fashion

We buy clothes every season that we can replace the next without breaking our bank accounts. But this fast fashion comes at a cost to the people making those clothes and to the environment.

March 8, 2018

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Happy By Nature’s top 6 organically-grown indigenous plants for your home

Equality. Are we there yet? We asked 6 eco-warrior women

18 Fashion brands ensuring South Africans don’t break the law

Youth Day 2020: “Knowing that your life is less valued is scary.”

The Covid coat offers upcycled protection

Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

Why you should give up these 3 items this Plastic Free July

12 Fast facts about fashion

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