WATCH | Cape Town women band together to sew masks to put food on the table amid lockdown
Gwebza, a Cape Town women’s sewing, supplying and catering cooperative, pivoted its operations from making local school uniforms to sewing cloth masks out of traditional African fabrics. This after the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown halted their production. The women’s cooperative, headed by founder Linda Mlanzeli Baleni, operates from a factory in Woodstock and employs 34…