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Workers at Kinross Clothing manufacturers in Maitland, sew men's trousers on October 19, 2017, in Cape Town. South Africa is fighting to revive its frayed clothing industry, once a crucial provider of jobs in a country suffering from high levels of unemployment, that has victim to a flood of cheap imports that has forced local factories to shutter and lay off workers. Once the economic lifeblood of many small regional towns, the abundance of cheaper products from China has led to the loss of nearly two-thirds of the sector's jobs over the past two decades. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)