South African clothing retailers are moving to locally manufactured apparel.
The Foschini Group is one of South Africa’s biggest dedicated clothing retailers and has made it a strategic imperative to reduce its reliance on single source suppliers like China. 
It now sources 35% of its clothing procurement from South Africa, whereas five years ago as much as 80% of its apparel items were imported from Asia.
Mr Price also now sources 35% of total merchandise units from South Africa, which is worth about R9.2 billion in retail sales. 
That’s up from about 31% in 2015.
The retailer has also committed to procuring 1,357 tons of cotton from local producers via its membership of the South Africa Cotton Cluster and says the local cotton industry has boosted its output by 775% over the past seven years.