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CTFF celebrates Local Fashion Industry

16 May '08
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By raising awareness of the industry's strengths and competitive advantages, the festival hopes to serve as a stimulant for its growth.”

“The industry faces the challenge of tooling up to address the competition from China and other low-wage producers and so we need to show and nurture the talent, quality, fashion innovation and quick-response capacity we are creating in South Africa ,” Patel added.

According to one of the festival co-ordinators, Etienne Vlok, the primary aim of the festival is to profile, position and create buzz around the South African clothing, textile, footwear and leather (CFTL) industry as the sector that, over and above delivering glamour and glitz, has the biggest capacity to drive mass-scale job creation in South Africa.

Every R1 million of sales in the clothing sector creates 11 jobs compared with 5 jobs in gold mining for the same amount of sales. The sector also has significant benefits for gender equity as the industry is a major employer of women.

The festival, initiated by SACTWU in 2002, is unique on the fashion calendar in that it is spearheaded by the union and places a special emphasis on the key role of labour to the continued success of the industry.

It incorporates workers in various events and activities. Monviso Knitwear machinist, Bianca Adams, was crowned Spring Queen in November last year and will be the Face of the Festival.

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Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union

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