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A Day In The Fields, A Lifetime In Fashion

PICTURE THIS. Somewhere in Kanana, a rural village in the innards of South

Africa’s North West province, a young girl takes a break from a routine day out playing in the fields with her friends, and accidentally leafs through the fashion pages of a glossy magazine, awe-struck by the style and design aesthetics of the big city. And she plans her life in that one moment.

Today, at 29, Tsholanang Mathibe is a fashion entrepreneur and founder of Blackmarble Designs in South

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