Newsletters

ComMark Catalyst

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Sharpening the competitive edge
Can Africa's clothing industry survive Asian competition
Eastern Cape Red Meat Project achieves important milestones
ComMark's Regional Standards Programme

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Hidden treasures
Creating jobs in the region
Obstacles to growth
Bringing emerging farmers into mainstream markets

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AsgiSA takes root
Making land reform work for the poor
Oiling the economy
Selling to supermarkets: locking farmers into the global value chain

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Packaging Vilakazi Street Precinct
Putting ‘Jobai' on the map
Entangled in red tape

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Tourism Satellite Accounting Exercise
Capitalising equity for community participation
Namibian tourism Product Audit
Community-based tourism

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Ethical trading
Training unleashes talent
Cultural assimilation programme
Tackling HIV and Aids
Industrial diversification

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Making markets work for small farmers
Cottoning on to Black Economic Empowerment
BEE made easy
Going organic
Harvesting in the wild - a natural development

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ComMark Turns One
ComMark Sends Team to Springfield
ComMark Strategic Review
Updates from Lesotho

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Lesotho Conference aims to develop burgeoning textile industry
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of the Mountain Kingdom
Growing Wool using Market Development
This is where ComMark is heading...
CloTrade – Supporting Growth in the South African Apparel Sector

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ComMark Trust established
ComMark's apparel investment
ComMark research into airline regulation
Examining the wool sub-sector
Why apparel?

ALAFA Newsletter

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A look at our progress ten years on
How a €500,000 grant from the EU will help the Lesotho apparel industry meet the competitive challenges of the 21st century
An interview with Bart vander Plaetse, ALAFA's new CEO
An interview with a textile worker who has taken in two Aids orphans

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Why people fear testing
Taking education into the factories
New ALAFA donors
A welcome for baby Thato

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Doctors on a learning curve
Interview with Jennifer Chen, the manager of Shinning Century Textiles in Maseru.
The day (PRODUCT)RED came to town
Interview with Mathabo Seatile, an HIV Positive 42-year-old mother of five children

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U2 frontman Bono promised to assist in raising funds
Interview with Dagmar Hanisch, ALAFA's project implementation team leader
Interview with an HIV Positive single mother of two

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Minister to head ALAFA Project Advisory Council
ALAFA starts the search for a CEO
Inerview with Mabatho Ramasoiri who is HIV-positive and happy to talk about it