Parusha Naidoo describes herself as a “dabbler of sorts”, currently dabbling in making art of the food-related digital illustration variety and telling food stories of history and memory. She was born in Durban and is a 6th generation South African Indian. She likes to call herself Afro-Asian and focuses on food and stories from Africa…
Category: people
People: Thabiso Musi
Thabiso Musi is a multi-disciplinary storyteller, creative, thinker, and designer who uses fashion as a medium for expression. I have followed Thabiso on Instagram for a while now and have always been so in awe of his deeply intentional design practice and his grounded, slow fashion lens. His practice, ideas, and blueprint for change make…
People: Chandra Mophethe
Both of us have always said that one of our most favourite parts of creating cnscs_ is the interviews we get to do. Each person shows up in the world in such a unique way and has such a different focus, but each time we end the interview, our hearts are full from having learnt…
People: Tourmaline Berg
Music touches all of our lives, in many many ways. And in the past year, even though live shows became almost a distant memory, music remained a source of comfort, affirmation, a welcome escape or just provided the vibes for a solo dance session! When it comes to the local music industry, Tourmaline Berg has…
People: Modupe Oloruntoba
We need to start by saying that this is an interview that we have BEEN wanting to do to, ever since we started cnscs_, almost a year ago! Modupe embodies so much of what cnscs_ means to us and each month, in our planning meetings, we’d discuss whether it was the right time to reach…
People: Emma Jones-Phillipson
Emma Jones-Phillipson is a freelance, gender, policy and climate consultant, based in Cape Town. She also happens to be one of our dearest friends! We met Emma, because of our mutual interests in slow fashion. In fact, when Stella first started her slow fashion journey, Emma’s articles on Twyg were some of the first articles…
People: Zayaan Khan
Zayaan Khan is a food, land and seed activist, based in Cape Town. Zayaan’s enchanting fermentations and work with the Seed Biblioteek have fascinated us for ages, so we reached out and asked if she’d be willing to chat with us about all this, and more. This conversation holds a very special place in our…
People: Banji Chona
Banji is an artchivist and artivist from Zambia. She uses art as a means to communicate socio-political and cultural issues with her community. Banji is currently in Italy, completing her Masters Degree in Arts and Culture Management. We came across Banji on Instagram and were drawn to her warm energy, mindful approach to life, colourful…
People: Luh’ra
Luh’ra is a local musician whose music brings us joy and whose personal style inspires us, always. We love creating these cnscs_ people conversations, because they allow us to connect with people we admire, in many, different ways, and share them with you. We always leave the calls feeling refreshed and inspired, and our chat…
People: Amy Ayanda
Amy Ayanda is a local artist and musician whose work we have adored for years. We love being a part of the community that Amy has created, online and offline, and the artworks and tunes she makes add so much joy to our feeds and lives. So, we hopped on a video call and had…
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