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Our Community<\/h1>\n

Who actually makes Courteney boots?\u00a0<\/span>Well here they are:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Three members of the Gumede family, brothers Temba (left) and Nhlanhla (right) and Nhlanhla’s son, Nkosi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jabulani and his son, Lytton.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Misheck, Themba, Enock and Edward<\/span><\/p>\n

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Khumbuzani, Nicholas and Cuthbert<\/span><\/p>\n

And let\u2019s hear it for the girls:\u00a0 <\/span>Courteney management is 100% women<\/b>.\u00a0 <\/span>No glass ceiling here!!<\/span><\/p>\n

We all make a good team, and together we’ve managed to weather economic collapse and a Covid year.<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t like waste. There are some local craftsmen who come each week to sort through our off-cuts which would otherwise go in the dustbin man’s truck.\u00a0<\/span>From these they will make leather small-goods like wallets and patchwork belts, and we’ve even seen a complete leather jacket.\u00a0<\/span>All of which amounts to food on a few more tables.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-poaching teams, patrols and rangers need good strong boots – we provide these widely at a discounted price. We wish we could give them for free, but we’re too little.<\/p>\n

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