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The Redd’s African Fashion Design Awards (RAFDA) is back in the fourth year of spotlighting Africa fashion design talent. Redd’s Premium Cold, a flavoured alcoholic beverage that is targeted at the trend-conscious young woman, sponsors the contest that was won in the last consecutive years by Batswana designers, Mpho Kuaho and Seneo Moji.

From avant-garde couture to wispy romantic ready-to-wear, South Africa's growing viability as a new fashion frontier was paraded on the ramps at Cape Town's Fashion Week this weekend.Veteran South African designers launched their spring/summer 2008 collection alongside young unknowns as the country aims to provide a springboard for the growing array of fashion talent at the tip of Africa.

A collection of bullet-proof clothing by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero has been launched in South Africa. South African businessman Ari Ben David has opened a showroom for the fashion label and intends to open a shop.

Over the past year, discussions about the lack of diversity on high fashion runways took place during live panels created by black leaders in the industry like Bethann Hardison, and on the pages of lofty publications like the New York Times.

A Shona art sculpture will be unveiled on the grounds of the Beaconsfield Library Monday, Aug. 4, it was announced last week. The sculpture, entitled Sisterhood, is a gift to the city from ZimArt, an Ontario-based organization that promotes artists from Zimbabwe by showing their creations in North America.