Nosipho Duma is the Woza Moya Artist for the month of May 2024. Her work translated as “Young Mother and Child” is appropriate for May as it is during May that we celebrate Mother’s Day in South Africa.

Sponsorship

We would like to thank the 100% Foundation who sponsor the Woza Moya Artist’s Wall on a monthly basis. With these funds we are able to give budding South African artists extra exposure.

Artwork Details

Title: “Umdlizane Osemcane” – Young Mother and Child
Medium: Acrylic on canvas which has been mounted on board
Size: 1m x 1m

Artist Profile:

Nosipho Duma is a visual artist born and raised in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. She finished matric in 2023.

She is the daughter of well known South African artist Sibusiso Duma, but only started drawing in 2020 during COVID lockdown. Her father then taught her to paint and she took it forward.

Her work is about the issues that teenagers face as they are growing such as drugs, alcohol and especially teenage pregnancy as it’s a huge problem in SA.

Nosipho states that “The biggest issue that young women face is teenage pregnancy. This then affects them by losing their dignity, people not respecting them, increasing poverty due to children that are parentless and crime.”

She hopes that by doing this work it can bring awareness among young people and decrease the huge number of these issues.