Basarwa crafts sustain 800 producers

She grew up producing crafts with ostrich eggshells with her mother in Ncaang settlement in Kgalagadi.  She was among the producers from the 16 Basarwa settlements popular for their crafts supplying the Gantsi Crafts Centre and Botswanacraft in Gaborone.

Kikonyane is now the coordinator of the Ghantsi Craft Centre, which sells and markets the crafts made by Basarwa to the visiting tourists and beyond. She says that her mother built a decent two and a half bed roomed house in Ncaang settlement all thanks to the proceeds from the crafts she produced.