Zimi Mningiswa

While studying at Fedisa Fashion School ,I volunteered to work at the 2023 Fedisa Graduate Collection Show helping the models get dressed and making sure the clothes on the rail were in order to make it easier for the Graduate designers to identify their garments . I also volunteered to work at the Fedisa Fashion Flash on the 30th March 2023 helping guests find their seats and helping the models get dressed .

During my school holidays from Grade 5 to Grade 9 , I would host English workshops with the kids and with help from the Al Noor Orphanage I was able to turn it into a programme where we also took the kids out on outings after successfully completing their work and through doing all this the kids would enjoy their work and the main goal of this was to provide the disadvantaged kids with a positive outlook to learning .

The day of the Rugby World Cup Final in 2023 I worked at Forrester Arms as a bartender to help the restaurant with the extra influx of people that the regular staff was not able to handle and I worked there for that day serving drinks and helping customers with anything they need .

My uncle who lives in Cape Town is always travelling and has a strict work schedule so every month for one weekend I always go over to their house and babysit my younger cousins making sure they eat and putting them to bed and overall providing them safety with someone older being there and providing my uncle with peace of mind that his kids are safe while he is away for work.

In April 2015 while looking to start my own fashion brand I interned with my cousins fashion brand LazyKidz to find out more about the fashion business and I designed T shirts and helped find manufacturers and local stores that would be able to stock the brand .