Sarah Heneck With the world’s ever-expanding urban population and the need to focus on environmentally friendly modes of transport in order to decrease carbon emissions, non-motorized transport (NMT) has become a major focus for city planners. Those who use cycling and walking as their means of commuting to and from work are generally at the … Read more
Tasmi Quazi A documentary entitled “We Came in Spring Carts” was aired at the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban during May 2019. It refers to the Indian indentured labourers that were one of the very first set of traders, who used to transport their fresh produce in Spring Carts. They were originally located at what … Read more
Sarah Heneck Imagine this as your everyday life. You wake up at 3.30am in order to be able to bathe and get dressed before climbing on a 4am taxi to Warwick Junction. The taxi ride takes half an hour and you try to have a nap but you are interrupted by the numerous stops that … Read more
Thuli Moyo When mechanisms in place fail to fully protect the vulnerable, then empowerment and knowledge remains the only defensive stronghold for the protection of informal workers’ rights. Incident forums are designed as an advocacy tool to advance socio-economic rights for informal traders in urban spaces and are being piloted in Warwick Junction, Durban CBD … Read more
“From the brink of hundreds of informal traders being threatened with displacement to the thriving, collective governance of today, Warwick Junction has carved a unique path to integrating large, informal markets into a modern city.” Dr. Frannie Léautier, a Juror of the 2019 WRI Ross Prize and the Chief Operating Officer of the Eastern and … Read more
Durban NGO a finalist in global impact competition: WRI Ross Prize for Cities Respected Durban NGO, Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) is one of the five finalists in the inaugural US-based global competition, WRI Ross Prize for Cities, for their intervention work in Warwick Junction. From an extensive field of nearly 200 applications from around the world, … Read more
Tasmi Quazi A trader leader and Chairman of our Board at Asiye eTafuleni (AeT), Khabazela Mkhize, was recently killed. Warwick Junction has lost someone regal, a gentle warrior in our midst. We celebrate his amazing life, as well as mourn this tragic loss. “Mr Mkhize was a hero, someone who worked for the community. We … Read more
Cecile Adrian The Early Morning Market (EMM), with its colonial origins in 1890s, is a thriving fruit and vegetable market at the heart of Warwick Junction. Amidst this bustling market a film crew setup in a row of shuttered stalls, a reminder of the struggles the market has endured, to interview Romila Chetty who has … Read more
Wood salvagers transporting their materials to the mealie cooks. Photo: Angie Buckland by permission Asiye eTafuleni. Sarah Heneck Growing up in a South African city, the informal economy is something that one cannot help but be aware of, however, I have only recently been exposed to the depth and complexities of this undervalued sector of … Read more
