Salaula

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title: "Salaula" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["culture-of-africa", "african-clothing", "fashion-industry", "economy-of-zambia", "culture-of-zambia", "reuse"] topic_path: "general/culture-of-africa" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaula" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

The Zambian term salaula means "to select from a pile in the manner of rummaging" or for short, "to pick". |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/feb/25/voluntarysector.charitymanagement |title= The journey of a blouse donated to charity |first= Michael |last= Durham |date= 25 February 2004 |publisher= The Guardian

The salaula industry faces many criticisms. One is that it tends to disturb the internal textile industry. Local textile business cannot compete with cheap used clothes coming from abroad. Defendants of the industry argue that market demand should dictate what is fair or not.

Another criticism is towards the profit companies are generating from these clothes since these clothes were originally donated to non-profit organizations such as Goodwill. Defendants of the practice argue that non-profit organization must sell these donations in order to acquire money necessary to fund their social projects.

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