Production sights in Africa

1. A Map

   Victoria Mxenge Women’s Group

   • Cape Town, South Africa
   • Sights › Production

   On a small plot of land just south of the junction of Lansdowne and Ottery Rds is the community of Victoria Mxenge, named after one of the heroes of the freedom struggle. At the community’s centre you can how local women, sick of living in shacks, started a joint savings scheme and taught themselves every aspect of building to design and construct their own homes. For little more than the cost of the very basic RDP home, the women can build three-bedroom homes of around 85 sq metres. So successful has the project been that they now advise other women’s groups around the world how to build homes.

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2. B Map

   Funduq Tazi

   • Fès, Morocco
   • Sights › Production

   Opposite Funduq Kaat Smen (), Funduq Tazi has a leather shop, Maison D'Artisanat , and some drum-makers who use the skins for their ceramic tam-tams (drums). It's a simple building with no decorative elements.

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3. C Map

   Blacksmith

   • Fès, Morocco
   • Sights › Production

   One of the last blacksmiths working in the traditional way, Tayeb el-Mendri fashions wrought-iron window screens and balcony inserts in curly arabesque designs using a coal fire, bellows and an anvil.

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