NATIVE KNITTERS
SOUTH AFRICAN GIRLS An Empire-wide knitting offensive has been fully launched, the purling and plaining campaign having spread from the northern reaches of Canada to Central Africa. Last year it was reported that a white woman living in Serowe, the capital of Bechuanaland, had taught three African girls how to manipulate knitting needles. This achievement evidently stimulated the ambition and envy of the other girls and women in the district, for a letter sent from South Africa later stated that the group had expanded to a total of 150 women, all of whom had been taught to knit. Their efforts have resulted in. warm garments being sent ■ to English airraid victims.
Bechuanaland is the famous territory explored by Livingstone in 1841, and once ruled by Khama, the equally famous chieftain, who made the historic appeal to England on behalf of his people. It occupies the central part of the vast tableland stretching north to the Zambesi, and is now governed by Chief Tsekedi. For the moment the group has ceased making clothes for overseas, having been asked by him to knit scarves for South African troops.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24831, 3 February 1942, Page 7
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