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A new initiative, the Mohair Industry Support Programme (MISP), was launched in the Eastern Cape province on Thursday. MISP is a result of the signing of a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) and the Mohair Empowerment Trust (MET). The MET is itself an initiative of Mohair South Africa. MISP’s first programme is to inject R1.4-million into four black-owned emerging angora goat farming operations in the Somerset East region of the Sarah Baartman district municipality. Mohair is the name given to the hair clipped (shorn) off Angora goats, and it is desired by global leading fashion brands, interior designers, craft specialists, industrial fibre specialists and the tourism industry.
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