{"id":47,"date":"2021-06-17T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x-theme.net\/avas-bakery\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:11:07","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tintsaba was founded by Sheila Freemantle in 1985. Her vision was to work with the women of rural eSwatini in order\u00a0for them\u00a0to grow in personal and\u00a0financial\u00a0independence. Starting with only 12 local women, Sheila’s guidance, dedication and innovation has resulted in Tintsaba becoming renowned worldwide for its refined sisal basketry technique\u00a0and quality jewelry making.\u00a0Consequently Tintsaba has been granted numerous awards and is now recognised as an industry leader.<\/p>

Since inception, Tintsaba has endeavored to create a workplace that encourages both personal and professional growth. We pride ourselves on this holistic approach, and so through various courses and workshops ranging in a variety of subjects such as; leadership, skill-set development, environmental awareness and women’s health, we aim to develop both our working and daily lives. To date,\u00a0Tintsaba has trained, and worked with over 1 400\u00a0women in rural eSwatini.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Unfortunately, our founder Sheila Freemantle, passed away in 2012. But with the dedication of her husband, Richard, the Tintsaba team continues\u00a0in her memory, upholding the ideals on which Tintsaba was built; excellence, team work, commitment to the earth and the holistic well-being of our groups.<\/p>

Invoking the passion that Sheila had, we are dedicated to continue creating the highest quality hand woven sisal products. The future for Tintsaba and the emaSwazi women is one of independence, personal strength and leadership in our communities.<\/p>

\u200b<\/span>Together we can weave a better life.<\/p>

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\u2022 Established in 1985<\/p>

\u2022 Over 1 400\u00a0rural emaSwazi women trained in 35\u00a0years<\/p>

\u2022 Have 20 Master Weavers<\/p>

\u2022 Work with 33\u00a0women’s groups across eSwatini<\/p>

\u2022 In 2016, we exported over 70,000 items\u00a0all over the world<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tintsaba was founded by Sheila Freemantle in 1985. Her vision was to work with the women of rural eSwatini in order\u00a0for them\u00a0to grow in personal and\u00a0financial\u00a0independence. Starting with only 12 local women, Sheila’s guidance, dedication...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tintsaba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}