Description
A stretched canvas print of an original painting done by Ashling of one of the ladies working at her KwaJobe craft group. Of the painting she says:-
“Ma Khethiwe is a member of the KwaJobe craft group. She has green fingers and grows the most beautifully luscious vegetables in the fertile soil of the iSimangaliso Wetlands. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, it has been the sale of vegetables, not craft, that have sustained many of the KwaJobe crafters. For rural households, lockdown makes life just that much harder. Grown children working in cities like Durban and Johannesburg, lose their jobs and return home. Children, no longer attending school, lose out on that vital daily meal provided by the school. Suddenly, parents have to find enough food for additional mouths. Out of lockdowns, the women have managed to secure a deal with a local man to sell their vegetables at the Spar grocery store in Jozini.”
