Zizo Bongekile Manona

Artist, Photographer, Designer. Zizo Bongekile Manona was born in the Eastern Cape, in a town called Butterworth in 1991 and later moved to Cape Town at the age of 9. 

Zizo began her first professional foray into the commercial photography landscape with an exhibit at the gallery formerly known as Knobs & Tassels. She was also accepted into the “Design Indaba Designer Directory” and selected as one of the regional design mentees for the first ever installment of “Laduma Ngxokolo and Chivas Business Talks” after submitting digital art and merchandise samples, showcased at the “2017 Sneaker Exchange Edition”, under her “Shelter4Artbrand”, and last but not least, she was also selected as one of the 40 designers across the Western Cape to partake in the “Hackathon” design marathon competition.