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Tasmi Quazi “Durban had been wrong to try to close down the Warwick Junction market and move traders into a new mall. It stopped listening to its own people before international input in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup (…) The 2010 World Cup in a lot of ways damaged our city… and one … Read more

Tasmi Quazi Warwick Junction, and accordingly its community of informal workers and the Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) team, is abuzz in preparation for the 25th Union of International Architects (UIA) world congress. The congress itself will be held in Durban at the International Convention Centre from August 3, 2014 to August 7, 2014. Unsurprisingly, the dynamic … Read more

Tasmi Quazi After unloading nearly 300 kilograms worth paper and cardboard recyclables stuffed into eThekwini municipal official, Pumla Jali’s car, her equally fatigued colleague, Caili Forrest exclaimed “It always seems impossible until it’s done!” These are the words of the legendary Nelson Mandela who inspired the act of 67-minutes of social service on the date … Read more

Richard Dobson & Tasmi Quazi There has been renewed media interest in AeT’s Inner-City Cardboard Recycling Project which has been featured in one of South Africa’s premium financial newspapers, Business Day, on 24 March 2014 in Page 7. The article written by Patricia McCracken focuses on the socio-economic benefits of informal recycling as a livelihood … Read more

Tasmi Quazi 1st of March marks International Waste Pickers’ Day, in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 waste pickers were brutally killed at the University of Barranquilla. For the past 21 years since this horrific event, waste pickers/informal recyclers have continued fighting for recognition of their work.   Although the day is marked … Read more