The Mohair Council of America (MCA) welcomed and spoilt us from the moment we landed in San Angelo, Texas. It was humbling and heart-warming as we visited a few ranches and their passion for their goats is visible and their love for the mohair industry is enormous.

Beauty Mokgwamme continues to provide the annual mohair training for Grootfontein College of Agriculture, she loves it and is very grateful that she can still contribute by teaching mohair classing skills to Grootfontein students.

Mohair is benefiting from a range of fashion trends favouring the fibre’s natural and luxurious qualities, as highlighted at the latest textile trade fairs. Read more in the latest edition of Twist Magazine.

Mohair South Africa is looking to build on the success of the Responsible Mohair Standard with additional projects across several areas including traceability and regenerative farming. Twist spoke to the organisation to find out more.

Understanding the Growers & Herders perspectives is key to building better textile fibre supply chain partnerships to accelerate innovation and sustainability.

Textile Exchange celebrated their 20th anniversary and hosted a cocktail function at the Mohair South Africa headquarters on Thursday, 8 September.

Mohair South Africa (MSA) and the Mohair Empowerment Trust (MET) participated in the virtual Animal Fibre Round Table hosted by Textile Exchange on Tuesday morning.

What’s on offer on Tuesday the 6th of September?

The highest price of the sale was R727.50 p/kg, for a bale of 25-micron kid mohair.

The AAMP is one of the seven priority plans identified by President Ramaphosa in his State of Nation Address.

The first Lesotho Mohair sale of 2022 was held on the 2nd of August at the Wool Exchange in Port Elizabeth.