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Strassberger Shoes is one of the leading shoe factories in South Africa since 1834. Despite certain aspects of construction that have been mechanized to ensure the best quality shoe money can buy, around 80% of the manufacturing process is still done by hand by a skilled team of professionals.The German Rhenish missionaries, Baron Theobold Von Wurmb and ReverendJohann Gottlieb Leipoldt – a shoemaker by trade – founded the settlement of Wupperthal deep in the heart of the Cederberg mountainsTravellers and residents alike soon realised they needed shoes as tough as the terrain and in 1834 Leipoldt opened the Wupperthal shoe factory.

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