Tasmi Quazi The heavy flash rainfall being experienced in Durban this month has highlighted the taxing implications for ‘informal’ traders working in public spaces. One of the hardest hit trading communities is the Impepho and Lime Market in Warwick Junction. This market comprises of two specific products that are sold, Impepho which is a form … Read more
The Non-Profit Organisation Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) in collaboration with the Markets of Warwick Committee is excited to present the Markets of Warwick School Tours. The Market of Warwick public tours began in February 2010 in time for the FIFA World Cup tourism influx. AeT together with the traders committee developed the traders’ initial idea to … Read more
Mr Shaik Ahmed, an informal trader from the Brook Street Market, also fondly known as ‘Strongman’ by the trading community – proudly boasts 80 years of healthy life, except for the more recent problems with his sight. This was becoming a challenge because he is dependent on his eye-sight not only because he lives alone, … Read more
On the weekend of the 21-22 May 2011, Warwick Junction hosted an energetic film crew representing the Smithsonian Channel for the TV series production of ‘Design with the other 90%’. This is a complimentary project of the exhibition under the same banner to be held at the United Nations Visitors Centre in New York later … Read more
Mkhululi Nonjola & Tasmi Quazi The second ‘Street Law’ Seminar was held on 26th April 2011, hosted by Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) at Seda eThekwini. This involved the participation of twenty-three informal traders from different sectors and officials amongst whom were Mr Raphalane from South African Human Rights Commission (KwaZulu-Natal’s Legal Department), a representative from the … Read more
Tasmi Quazi A review of the Imagine Durban Inner-city Cardboard Recycling Project, written by Aleksandra Brzozowski from Sustainable Cities International and Tasmi Quazi from Asiye eTafuleni, has been profiled in a South African magazine for Local Government called ‘Delivery’, in its April-June 2011 edition. The article notes, ‘This pilot project has contributed to a better … Read more
Garth Johnstone writes, ‘A tour of the markets of Durban’s Warwick area is a wonderful assault on the senses. An innovative NGO/is conducting walking tours of this hub of culture and commerce… Asiye eTafuleni has taken up the cudgels and since about the time that the World Cup kicked off they have been offering the … Read more
Warwick Junction, under the rubric ‘iTRUMP’ (Inner Thekwini Regeneration & Urban Management Program) is being exhibited at the Smithsonian’s CooperHewitt, National DesignMuseum, as part of its project called ‘Design with the other 90%: CITIES’. The idea of ‘Design for the Other 90%’ exhibition, developed in 2007, is an ongoing series that focuses on design solutions … Read more
Tasmi Quazi & Mkhululi Nonjola On the 18 October 2010, around 14 trader leaders from different informal trader organisations and street committees from Warwick attended a ‘Street Law’ seminar that was organised by the NGO Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) and facilitated by University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) 3rd & 4th year Law students as part of the … Read more
