Owners of ‘non-compliant’ clothing and textile factories are reacting angrily to recent raids by police.

The textile and clothing industry urgently needs to get over this narrow-minded dispute around wages, says Renato Palmi, a researcher.

Alex Liu’s parents came from Taiwan to Newcastle in 1989 and set up a toy factory. Ten years later they invested in the Win-Cool clothing factory.

The Newcastle clothing industry has become a metaphor for the crucial debate about jobs in South Africa, writes <b>Teague Payne</b>.