Khayelitsha is the largest Black city in the Cape Town area created during the Apartheid era. The city was never meant to function as a thriving metropolis—the government required that all stores and businesses were located in White towns. The half million residents of Khayelitsha were simply bedded there in order to provide cheap labor to White industry needs in the Cape region. Now, on this side of independence, 40% of Khayelitsha residents are unemployed. The Craft Market is one of the hundreds of small industries being created to supply jobs and income to those unemployed people. The Craft Market trains women in the art of making curios for tourists, supplies them with the materials through a revolving fund, and then markets the products to tourists. All of the proceeds remain within the Craft Market cooperative in Khayelitsha.