Donor Ncube on the secrets of Tonga basket weaving by RADIO ZUBO published on 2020-06-25T22:23:01Z Zubo Trusts‘s Donor Ncube sheds some light on what it really is that makes an ilala basket a “quality product”. We are talking about is the kind of knowledge that is passed on for generations from mothers to daughters. Yet each generation may also be adding new experiences, slightly different practices of “the same” and their own very peculiar perspective on the traditional Tonga craft…! Zubo Trust as an organisation assists rural weavers groups in Binga District in marketing their products; Zubo distributes and collects orders and ensures for information flow and capacity building across interested weavers groups in the six wards that Zubo is operating in. Donor herself grew up in Simatelele Ward and learnt weaving ilala crafts from her mother. As she tells us in the archived interview, the earnings from crafts sale allowed her widowed mother to send Donor to secondary school; thus the young girl was eager learning the arts of weaving herself and stand on her own feet. The entire interview with Donor is archived here: https://archive.org/details/Donor_Ncube_Zubo_ilala-crafts Donor Ncube is looking after the ilala crafts project at Zubo Trust; and working as admin and financial assistance officer. https://www.zubowomen.org/ Music by Crystal DJ Kwe Favel from “Radio Remixes Voices of Binga” https://soundcloud.com/wax-warriors-record-label Genre Learning