Proudly South African – does it matter?
September 24th, 2009 | 
Author: How important is it to you as a South African consumer that products you buy are made in South Africa? Imports are often a lot cheaper but how much extra are people willing to pay to support industry in South Africa or is price the bottom line? These questions have been going around in my head as we once again face this dilemma ourselves as we source fabric for our nappies.
We try as far as possible to make Earth Babies as South African as possible and to support other businesses here in South Africa. It has not always been easy and especially with the fabric we use to make our nappies it has been hard to keep it local, but we did find a SA weaver and were proud that our nappies are made start to finish in SA. But even this might be a thing of the past soon as very few local weavers survive at the moment and most fabric is imported. Price and ultimately if these small weavers close might force us to import which is sad.
Please fill in our poll as I would love to see what motivates you when buying.
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I do try where I can to support South African business by buying South African produced and it does influence my choices quite strongly – I love seeing SA produced or Proudly South African tags on things and look out for them. However price is a very big factor for me. – I cannot afford the very high prices some (specifically clothing) SA produced labels carry.