Imivezo yokuqala

(Collection I)

Flowers Of The Transkei

An ode to the women of our nation. 

As the years go by and we build ourselves new futures, birthed by the portals of our past, we graze through the history of womanhood in Mzansti. On the trails our mothers embarked on, to forage, to gather water, to school, to dance, to play, to wash, to weep, to sell, to seek guidance and quite, to hide or to simply to breathe. To abolish outdated customs and systems that still allow men to refile our divination, fail our children — and soar. 

As we glide through the skies of our infiniteness , and chance upon umhlaba (soil), of the AmaXhosa people and their women’s heritage, the treasured trinkets of culture, ancestry and modern neglect, are revealed, as the winds of Mzantsi’s Southern-Eastern landscape combs through its fields, lushes forests and gently kisses coast , we sew with the delicate, sweet yet resilient scents of the

Flowers of the Transkei.