Abstract
Small manufacturing cooperatives tend to encounter challenges
when making production facility location decisions. The
consideration of facility location factors when making location
decisions is a challenge for smaller enterprises, their decision are
based on the availability of funding and infrastructure. In this
project, a total census 83 funded sewing cooperatives
participated. The majority of these cooperatives perceived
themselves as successful because they were still in operation and
receiving contracts from time to time. Incubators and facilitysharing,
are strategies suggested for new sewing cooperatives, to
avoid the mistakes associated with home-based business
operations. Operations and green practices in sewing cooperatives
would make a substantial contribution to the creation of
knowledge about sewing and clothing cooperatives, given the
interest of South African government to revitalize manufacturing
and that of the United Nations of creating an inclusive economy
through cooperatives.