THE NAME of Walt Disney means more than a comedy treat for a number of previously disadvantaged South Africans, whose products are now being featured prominently in Disneyland and Disney World in the United States - thanks to Johannesburg export company Hannafrica.com "We showed them African furniture when we were part of a trade mission to the US and they liked what they saw," says managing director Maralyn Hanna. The result was a large order for goods of that nature. But the Disney interest stretched further when shown the wirework figures, machines and vehicles made by black workers in this country. Now Hanna.com has a number of them in various places busy turning out their products for sale in the US.
