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Plan to develop artisans could help reignite SA’s economy

during the December holidays, I embarked on a 70km trip on a gravel road from Butterworth to Mazzepa Bay, a journey that took me past a village that was once a hotbed for skills development in the former Transkei homeland.

The village, known asTeko and situated in Centani, was home to Teko Vocational School. In the 1980s the school was a point of pride for the then Transkei ruler, Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima, who had figured out that having an army of skilled artisans

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