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So, what’s the deal with “craft”?

South Africa, a cynical colleague once said, must surely be one of only a handful of countries in the world where good, unique, handmade products are mass-produced in the blink of an eye (while still being marketed as “craft products”) and eventually the whole bunch – the good and the bad – draw

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