Article: The craft industry in South Africa: a review of ten years of democracy.(Art and Freedom)

The craft industry has seemed to promise much to a transforming South Africa. A sprawling and highly varied collection of activities that straddle the first and third world economies, the cram industry is peculiarly representative of the more general challenges and opportunities faced by South Africa ten years into democracy. In a country that competes with Brazil for the dubious distinction of having the widest gap between rich and poor in the world (a gap that continues to widen), the craft sector appeared to offer an opportunity not only to deliver large numbers of impoverished people into the promised land of "A Better Life for All," (1) but also to afford politically ...

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