South African Precious Moloi-Motsepe, one of Africa's wealthiest women, is a fervent supporter of the continent's young, vibrant, and culturally varied fashion designers.

Style has run through her veins since she was a little child growing up in the Soweto slum, and she believes the time is right for "African designers to shine" on a global scale.


She launched the Johannesburg and Cape Town fashion weeks a decade and a half ago, bringing together designers from all over the continent with the goal of preparing them for worldwide success.

Her objective is now beginning to produce fruit, she told AFP with a confident smile, at a fresh new luxury shop in an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa's economic metropolis.

“Now more than ever,