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Working Women: #20 Taz
Taz is a familiar face at Red Café on High Street where she waitresses and at the store she runs on the ground floor, In The Loop.Taz has made money from working part time all her life, she also writes, barters and makes pottery. “You have to do everything you can and in the end […]
Working Women: #19 Inge de Klerk
Inge de Klerk works full time as a dentist in a state clinic in Joza and she is the partner in a new shoe business Rosie Toes. Although she and another work colleague only started the business in February this year, and have has not sold a single pair of shoes in Grahamstown, they frequently […]
Working Women: #18 Sasha Armstrong
“I need to be creative so at the moment it’s just jewelry but I’m hoping to move on to some bigger things,” said Sasha Armstrong owner of That’s Random. “I studied art and graduated with a BFA, but then I got stuck in admin and finance so this is like my escape to stay sane,” said […]
Working Women: #17 Tapiwa and Alice Chindeka
Reading towards a degree in math and computer science, Tapiwa Chindeka makes bags and accessories to take her mind off academia. “I do it to use a different part of my brain, it’s my creative side” she said. “It started when I wanted a bag but I didn’t want to buy it. So I decided […]
Working Women: #16 Mama Mavis
Mama Mavis was born in 1970 in Grahamstown, she has worked various jobs but mainly as a volunteer at the Assumption Development Centre in Joza ever since the project started. “First I was just making crotchet items and cleaning the centre but now I do all kinds of things here,” said Mavis. With her warm […]
Working Women: #15 Karen Wentworth
Karen Wentworth is a textile artist living in Grahamstown, South Africa. She works as a nurse, mostly in clinical trials, but her art occupies most of her spare time and passion. “I’m a magpie,” says Karen. “I’m always on the lookout for good quality, bright fabric”. She scans jumble sales and thrift stores for scraps and […]
Working Women: #14 Siobhan Landman
As a child growing up in a remote farming community Siobhan Landman put her energy into creative outlets, and by the time she went to study Anthropology at Rhodes, she had become a self-taught expert in all things craft. The skills that have stuck with her are knitting, crotchet, cross stitch and painting. “Back home, people found […]
Working Women: #13 Nikki Kohly
Nikki’s environmental passion has been a lifelong affair. From the age of five, she somehow knew that she never wanted to produce children. It was as if at some deep, visceral level, she sensed the planet was already beginning to groan under the burden of human expansion and greed. A late ‘baby-boomer’, Nikki grew up […]
Working Women: #12 Sarah-Lee de Jongh
Alongside reading towards her degree in Art at Rhodes Sarah- Lee de Jongh also runs a successful soap business from home, but from her real home in McGregor on the West Coast. She describes it as a “magical little village”, full of arty people, like her parents, who are both sculptors. “I used to suffer from […]
Working Women: #11 Alex Johson
“In this competitive life people are often unkind to themselves, and to others”, Alex Johson says sitting cross legged on the blue cushions and patterned carpets of the Buddhist Centre on West Street. A small patch of magenta painted brick and a few weather-beaten cloth streamers only just distinguishes the centre from the other doorways […]
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