Generational knowledge keeps leather making tradition alive in Zimbabwean families

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Generational knowledge keeps leather making tradition alive in Zimbabwean families

STORY: Generational inheritance keeps leather making tradition alive in Zimbabwe DATELINE: May 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:13:16 LOCATION: BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mduduzi Jele at work with a senior worker working on various processes of leather shaving 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Ndebele): MDUDUZI JELE, Local junior worker 3. various of Jele's mentor holding a zebra hide and soaking various hides in a chemical-filled plastic container 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Shona): CECIL RUSERE, Local senior worker 5. various of a company signboard with the company name, various workers sorting raw wet hides and more workers pulling out dried hides from the machine 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Ndebele): MDUDUZI JELE, Local junior worker 7. shots of more of Jele and Rusere sorting different finished leather materials 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Shona): CECIL RUSERE, Local senior worker 9. various of Jele's father working on leather materials 10. SOUNDBITE 5 (Ndebele): THEMBA JELE, Local senior worker 11. shots of more workers and Jele's fat

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