Nkhensani Manganyi

Nkhensani Manganyi (also known as Nkhensani Nkosi) is a South African-born actress and fashion designer Quotes Behind the glamour of these photographs, there is a lot of hard work that goes on. Fashion is a business like any other, yet most people don’t possess the essential entrepreneurial skills. I am a graduate of the Stoned Cherrie School of Hard Knocks!” Hell, why can’t I do something really big and wild like Richard Branson?” You can never imagine that fear of being forced to jump I am a big dreamer – anyone who knows me will tell you that, My parents ensured I grew up knowing what was happening in South Africa. I was schooled at Sacred Heart College, which dealt with integration. I grew up in Diepkloof, Soweto, but I spent some of my school holidays going to work with my dad at Wits, and both parents instilled in me a strong sense of social conscience. My father used to say, ‘We need a culture of psychotherapy. The nation doesn’t have that’. My parents] are truly honourable. I want to live their legacy. My father is so sophisticated emotionally and intellectually, yet he grew up in a rural area in an impoverished family. He even worked as a gardener. And my grandmother was illiterate We went to places we didn’t imagine existed. We were a mixed bunch – right-wingers, PAC members, liberals. We furiously thrashed out our divergent opinions. But by the time we returned home, we were all committed friends. This changed my life, One of my dreams is to conduct road shows like that and spread the language of love. Forget religion – love is the only thing that matters I was in the midst of a struggling dichotomy and I had to struggle to carve an identity “It was fantastic. I got exposed to the African aesthetic, something I couldn’t define – the soul, the beat of the country. This was a vision of Africa that the rest of the world didn’t even know existed at that time. I embraced it. I knew I wanted to create a uniquely African lifestyle brand that redefines Africa in the 21st century and puts it at the forefront. I want to be a ‘creative activist’. My ultimate aim is to create a global African brand, inspired and manufactured in this country I would like to build the next stage of entrepreneurs and to do it with Government support. I want to ask the Wits Business School and the Gordon Institute of Business Science to help scour the landscape for the next generation of entrepreneurs. One of my life purposes is to inspire. External links Category: living people Category:Actresses from South Africa Category:Fashion designers from South Africa