The public can vote for the object they feel signifies beauty in South Africa.

The exhibition will be at Rosebank Mall, Johannesburg from Tuesday, 12 to Monday, 18 January. After that, it will travel to the Gateway Theatre of Shopping in Durban where it will be on display from Tuesday, 26 January to Tuesday, 2 February. It will finally visit the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town from Monday, 8 to Sunday, 21 February.

Meet the nominators and the projects and products they've nominated:

  • Fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo has nominated the Kassena Town Cabinets by Dokter & Misses;  
  • TV presenter, singer and songwriter Katlego Maboe has nominated the See-Saw-Do social enterprise;
  • Design, décor and styling guru Tracy Lee Lynch has nominated the Shawl by fashion designer Laduma Ngxokolo;
  • Gareth Cliff, radio and television personality, has nominated the Bottle 2 Build school initiative;
  • MOAD director Aaron Kohn has nominated Haroon Gunn-Salie's first solo exhibition, History After Apartheid;
  • Dillion Phiri, founder and creative director at Creative Nestlings, has nominated longboards created by Kent Lingeveldt;
  • Department of Arts and Culture chief director of Cultural Industries, Lindi Ndebele Koka, has nominated the Umthi Hanging Lamp by Meyer Von Wielligh;
  • Emilie Gambade, the editor-in-chief of ELLE South Africa, has nominated the Basotho Blanket Classic Starburst Coat by Thabo Makhetha;
  • Veejay Archary & Marisa Holley of Black Africa Group have nominated a vegetarian dish created by chef Candice Philip of the Five Hundred restaurant; and
  • The Design Indaba team has chosen to nominate the Twenty Journey book by photographers Sean Metelerkamp, Sipho Mpongo and Wikus De Wet.

Click here to vote for MBOISA 2016.

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