About the Series: 31 Faces, 31 Voices

31 Faces, 31 Voices is a powerful storytelling series created to honour the rich, complex, and diverse experiences of women. At its core, this project is about giving women the space to share their stories, in their own way, using their own voices. It is a reclamation of narrative, identity, and voice. Too often, women's stories are told for them, about them, or are reduced to narrow, one-dimensional portrayals. This series challenges that by creating space for authenticity and truth. It acknowledges that there is no single way to be a woman. Womanhood is layered—it carries culture, memory, pain, joy, silence, resistance, softness, strength, and transformation. 31 Faces, 31 Voices exists to make space for all of it. Over the course of 31 days, a different woman shares her truth. Each story is unique, each face distinct, and each voice necessary. The aim is not to define womanhood but to expand it—to show the fullness of women’s lives beyond surface perceptions or the everyday challenges. This is about legacy, vulnerability, identity, and the many ways women choose to show up in the world. Here, you’ll meet all the women who have taken the brave step to share a part of themselve

Day 1: Unarine Sinwamali

Through pain, Unarine found her way back to herself. As kidney stones fractured her body, art became her return, rebirth, and a deeper becoming.

Day 2: Primrose Vundla

Day 3: Yolonda Ross

Day 5: Ayanda Mashigo

Day 6: Siphosethu Mzulwini

Day 7: Paballo Leacwe

Day 8: Katleho Mavundla's Mom

Day 9: Mokgadi Marokoane

Day 10: Gugulethu Dlamini

My strong, beautiful mother shares her journey with breast cancer, courageously shedding light on a topic often left unspoken, as she prepares for a mastectomy, her story is one of strength, hope, and the urgent need for awareness.

Day 11: Zukiswa White

She dives deep into the experience of Black womanhood in South Africa—unflinching in confronting injustice, systemic challenges, and the weight of socio-economic struggles like alcoholism and abuse. Yet through it all, she rises, resilient, unbroken, and fiercely determined to transcend.

Day 12: Professor Mapotso kena

Day 13: Puleng Plessie

Day 14: Mbali Jozi

Day 15: Khombi Phetla

Day 16: Hannah Mosley

Day 17: Senetisiwe Ginindza

Day 18: Angela Woyciechowski

Day 19: Surprise Madula

Surprise bravely shares her story of surviving childhood sexual assault, a painful beginning that could not define her. Through courage and healing, she found breakthrough, rising into the powerful, resilient woman she was always meant to become.

Day 20: Katleho Seutloali

Day 21: Future Booi

Day 22: Jacqualyn Howard

Day 23: Mora Phakisi

Day 24: Mel Madiba

Day 25: Sihle Kakana

Day 26: Xolelwa Malinga

Day 27: Makananelo Suoane

Day 28: Zanele Ncube

Day 29: Sarah, Alena's Mother

Day 30: Zinhle Sithebe

Day 31: Mumley Maifadi