XHOSA KNITWEAR INNOVATOR HAS MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION GOALS
March 1st, 2019
SOUTH African award-winning knitwear entrepreneur Laduma Ngxokolo has a personal dynamism that underpins the 32-year-old’s dominance in his niche market of integrating Xhosa art and cultural traditions with knitted garments.
Hailing from Port Elizabeth, a major South African city in the Eastern Cape, he embraced his cultural heritage to found knitwear fashion house MaXhosa Africa by Laduma in 2012. He had his first hands-on textile designing experience in 2003 while at Lawson Brown High School, Port Elizabeth, and his flair for knitwear design earned him a ...
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