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HAND MADECAPE Official newsletter of the Western Cape Craft & Design Sector Proudly promoted by the Cape Craft & Design Institute npc Jeff Mwazha Jeff AUG Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC August 2013 Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC 2013 1 EDITORIAL Contents CCDI goes digital The CCDI has added Facebook, Pinterest ,Twitter and Why a tribute? 3 Youtube to its stable of communication tools. The Newsletter continues to present in- HAND depth articles to enrich our understanding MADE celebrating CAPE of the complex landscape within which a DESIGN 44 craft entrepreneur operates. Stay up to date with the News! building your FOLLOW and LIKE the CCDI Facebook BRAND page for immediate news, comments 8 and conversations. Write on our wall! www.facebook.com/pages/Cape-Craft- TECHNOLOGY and-Design-Institute/152396544910856 ?ref=ts&fref=ts tools for your trade 9 The CCDI Website has 5 blogs - ROOTS JOIN the discussion, on 10 http://ccdi.org.za/ccdi-blog/ & shoots CCDI on Twitter reflects events and views of immediate interest – FOLLOW MAKING us on twitter.com/capecraftdesign 12 and retweet comments to others. economy twitter.com/capecraftdesign Exploring CCDI on Pinterest is building storyboards of beautiful Western EXPORTS 13 Cape handmade objects, which link straight back to the CCDI Website – a marketing aid – see pinterest.com/ around this capecraftdesign and PIN OBJECTS to CITY 14 your own Pinterest boards. CREATIVE pinterest.com/capecraftdesign CCDI on YouTube at present enterprises 16 showcases 5 excellent clips reflecting the Western Cape craft sector, and will be grown to carry clips of going training workshops and other useful GREEN information – google YouTube – 17 Cape Craft and Design Institute, and WATCH us. FRINGE www.youtube.com/user/capecraftandde sign?feature=watch in focus 18 Tribute to... This edition of our monthly newsletter is a tribute from the craft and design sector of the Western Cape – to thank Madiba for his contribution to our peaceful South African transition to democracy, for giving us back our dignity as a country, for being the best ambassador that the cause of freedom and equality could ever wish Editor: for – he has touched all our lives, and we honour him. We thought Marjorie Naidoo Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC August 2013 Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC it an important moment to pay tribute to our truly great leader while 2 absorbing the lessons he has taught us. Editorial Tribute to Madiba Erica Elk Why a Tribute? It suddenly struck me, while preparing for this came, it was obvious1. And that tragic terrible from 8-6 on Sunday and again on Monday – edition, that Mandela was 46 when he went to moment on national television the day Chris thrashing out a vision and a strategy. I know jail. I’m sure I knew that – but it stung me when Hani was assassinated when he exercised the the cynics amongst us are saying “not another I read it again – probably because, give or take authority of a President of South Africa – that strategy!” Couldn’t agree more. But my point a few years, we would be peers. I can’t begin was formally not yet his - and urged us to look is that we were THERE. Taking responsibility. to imagine spending the next 27 years in jail… beyond the race of the assassin. Trying to figure out what our next steps need And do we really know how lucky we are that to be to achieve our vision. We are not the he got out – in good health -- and was able There are undoubtedly many many other only ones. There are millions of ordinary South to spend another 23 years out of it – with us moments when he took such principled Africans doing extra-ordinary things to rebuild – leading the charge for a democratic South stands. Something, I think, that we all this country. That’s the real legacy of Madiba… Africa? desperately miss in the current milieu: responses and actions that are based on But, principle and vision aside, when it comes Since we decided to turn this edition, in principles arising from core values; values from down to it, I’m just a romantic who tends his birth month, into a tribute to Madiba, which we do not stray, and which keep us on to always see the glass half full… so when I I’ve been mulling over what to say. How to course. come to Gauteng I love using the Gautrain… say something meaningful when so much I (quite literally) go out of my way to make it has already been said and written so very Principle. His absolute belief that all people part of my journey (go figure!) … because I eloquently. are equal and have the potential to do great love seeing South Africans of all shapes and things; and of course his commitment to act, sizes just going about their daily lives. Sure – I So I can only write from experience. I had at great personal cost. know that the vast majority of commuters in the privilege of meeting Madiba a few times Gauteng don’t get to sit on that train. But still. in my life, on very different occasions in very It reminds me of a comment President Zuma Who would have thought, through the bullets different circumstances, and each time I was made in Parliament a few weeks ago, along and tear gas, and caspers and sjamboks, and overwhelmed by his humility, generosity, love, the lines of: we must be careful when we bannings and conscientious objectors, and sense of humour, respect, clarity and principle. eulogise Mandela not to re-write history and deaths in detentions, and troops in townships, And that he really saw and acknowledged you. sanitise his life story. When we pay tribute to the dompas and forced removals… that we’d Amidst all of these, it’s his unwavering sense Madiba, we must acknowledge and honour swop marching to Pretoria with riding a high- of principle that stands out for me. him in his entirety. He is not simply the ‘saint’ speed train together. that saved South Africa when he walked I remember very well that tense moment in out of Victor Vester. He is revolutionary. A So whatever we still have to deal with to get the 80s sometime, when PW Botha made a change-maker who did not settle for less or us to truly to fulfill our potential as a nation, we conditional offer of release if Mandela would enough – but fought from a very long time ago love Madiba because he makes us feel good renounce violence. We all waited with bated - when the tide was against him – to create about ourselves and our country. He helps breath for the answer. And when it a South Africa where all are equal above the us forgive each other. And while the love is law; where all enjoy the freedom of movement, unconditional, his form of reconciliation is not. expression and association and the right to a His message is not simply forgive and forget decent life. and carry on as if nothing happened. His forgiveness is premised on a mutual pact that We are where we are because of the principled WE WILL DO SOMETHING about fixing the stand he, and many thousands of others took, mess that we have both inherited and created. for the last 100 years and more. And not just So the best way to honour him? Do something for 67 minutes in a year... to fix it. I spent this last weekend in a strategy session with the National Arts Council. An amazing collection of about 50 artists, administrators, academics, intellectuals – young and old, black, pink, white and grey, women and men. Singers, dancers, musicians, painters, ERICA ELK sculptors … and bureaucrats. We argued. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CCDI Some pontificated. We got mad. We got 1 Tribute to... sad. We celebrated some achievements. www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/president-p-w- botha-offers-nelson-mandela-conditional-release-prison The most important thing? We were there The pic was taken by Derek Hanekom, then Minister of Land Affairs and Agriculture, when I was his media liaison officer. We were attending a ceremony to return land to a community in KZN. I think it must have been one of the first resolved restitution cases... Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC August 2013 Cape Craft & Design Institute NPC NEXT CRAFT SECTOR MEETING 4 Sep 2013 3 CelebratingTribute to a Symbol Design of Hope Mandela's dream for South Africa “I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent,” said Nelson Mandela. After voting in the first democratic elections, he outlined the country’s priorities: “Our message is that the basic needs of the masses of the people must be addressed: the creation of jobs, of houses, the introduction of electricity, building of schools and hospitals, providing free, compulsory quality education, running water, paved roads.” What a challenge the country faced, following the apartheid design of entrenched segregation of public facilities, transport and education; and, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, a barrage of legislation intended to socially redesign the country by separating it into white South Africa and the African homelands. www.theguardian.com To make a change, you need a plan, and the vision for a new South Africa was shaped through the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Mandela signed the final draft at Sharpeville, Vereeniging, in 1996. Like all good design, it drew on the input of the people who would actually use it.