Artists

Maphuza Dambuza

Maphuza Dambuza

Maphuza Dambuza is a 76-year-old grandmother who has been part of the Monkeybiz family for since 2000 as a COLLECTIBLE bead artist. She was taught to bead by the late...

Maphuza Dambuza

Maphuza Dambuza is a 76-year-old grandmother who has been part of the Monkeybiz family for since 2000 as a COLLECTIBLE bead artist. She was taught to bead by the late...

Phumla Lempuku

Phumla Lempuku

Phumla Lempuku, 34 years old, has been beading with Monkeybiz since 2005. She learned the art of beading from her mother, Noiz Lempuku. Originally from Gatyana in the Eastern Cape,...

Phumla Lempuku

Phumla Lempuku, 34 years old, has been beading with Monkeybiz since 2005. She learned the art of beading from her mother, Noiz Lempuku. Originally from Gatyana in the Eastern Cape,...

Zisiwe Lumkwana

Zisiwe Lumkwana

Zisiwe Lumkwana is a 61-year-old mother and grandmother who has been with Monkeybiz since 2005 as a COLLECTIBLE bead artist. She is a self-taught beader, originally from Tsomo in the...

Zisiwe Lumkwana

Zisiwe Lumkwana is a 61-year-old mother and grandmother who has been with Monkeybiz since 2005 as a COLLECTIBLE bead artist. She is a self-taught beader, originally from Tsomo in the...

Lumka Duma

Lumka Duma

Lumka Duma is a 47 year-old mother who has been with Monkeybiz since 2015. Originally from Cradock, Hofmeyr, she now resides in Samora Machel, Cape Town. She loves to bead...

Lumka Duma

Lumka Duma is a 47 year-old mother who has been with Monkeybiz since 2015. Originally from Cradock, Hofmeyr, she now resides in Samora Machel, Cape Town. She loves to bead...

Zoleka Mhlaka

Zoleka Mhlaka

My mother taught me how to do beading when we started Monkeybiz.

Zoleka Mhlaka

My mother taught me how to do beading when we started Monkeybiz.

Phumla Mramba

Phumla Mramba

Born 1973, Eastern Cape, South Africa   Phumla has been beading for 19 years. She has 2 children, 1 son and 1 daughter. She loves being creative and coming up...

Phumla Mramba

Born 1973, Eastern Cape, South Africa   Phumla has been beading for 19 years. She has 2 children, 1 son and 1 daughter. She loves being creative and coming up...