Work experience with inner city cardboard recyclers

by Tasmi Quazi for Asiye eTafuleni On Tuesday 8th of March, two new members to the Imagine Durban Cardboard Recycling Project, who are 4th year social work students from UNISA’s Bright Site Project, joined two Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) staff members to get practical experience in the working lives of informal cardboard recyclers. The Bright Site … Read more

Friends of the Recyclers

Asiye Etafuleni invites formal businesses to support the Friends of the Recyclers programme. By donating your cardboard and paper waste to Imagine Durban cardboard recyclers, you can help to support the livelihoods of cardboard recyclers. If you would like to be involved in this initiative, please feel free to contact Tasmi Quazi on (031) 309 … Read more

Warwick tour guides’ graduation in the news!

Who better to show tourists all that Durban’s Warwick Junction Markets have to offer than the people who kept it alive? Our traders turned tour guides graduated in December 2010, and were featured in Isolezwe and The Mercury. Unfortunately a misprint in the Isolezwe article reported Mr. Patric Ndlovu as one of the traders that … Read more

Meet the Markets of Warwick’s newly qualified tour guides!

When the Markets of Warwick tour project was initiated, it was clear that the traders themselves would be the best tour guides to guide and showcase their markets. A trader was selected from each market to attend a tour guide training programme, and they all qualified as professional tour guides in December 2010.

Warwick Junction informal traders qualify as tour guides

December 1st 2010 was an important day for the traders in Warwick Junction. Friends, family members and colleagues came to celebrate the achievements made by eight Warwick Junction traders who had completed a rigorous training programme to become the first local tour guides for the Markets of Warwick Tour. When the Markets of Warwick Tour … Read more

Working in Warwick book review in The Mercury – 19/08/2009

Authored by Richard Dobson and Caroline Skinner, Working in Warwick describes the painstaking processes undertaken by the city to develop the market into the thriving economic hub it is today. Working in Warwick is published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Development Studies and is available at Adams and Exclusive Books. This  was featured … Read more