Flip flops from the slum Written on May 27, 2009, by Ingeborg.
Loose the Birckies. Shoe designer Jan Jansen and industrial design students are selling a slipper that keeps car tyres from being incinerated. Plus gives South Africans in slums a job. The patterns were designed by orphans from the slums around Durban. Even our secretary of state our wears a pair of Plakkies (South African for flip flop).