Compiled by Tasmi Quazi & Zoe Horn Project Leader of Asiye eTafuleni (AeT), Richard Dobson, has written an opinion-editorial article which appeared in the local newspaper, the Sunday Tribune Business KZN supplement, on 8 December 2013 on page 6 under the theme “Planning”. The article was prompted by the need for more open debate about … Read more
Kara van Schilfgaarde & Tasmi Quazi As an intern at Asiye eTafuleni (AeT), Kara was given the opportunity to engage with the women of “Senzokwethu”, a group of informal traders who run a soup kitchen every morning for the patients of the Centre for Communicable Diseases based in Warwick Junction. As an act of community … Read more
Tasmi Quazi & Richard Dobson After a scan of the past month’s news coverage, it is evident that informal workers across various metropolitan cities in South Africa have been experiencing extreme harassment. Some of these have occurred under the guise of inner-city “clean-up” operations which on paper and rhetoric speak of development aims in relation … Read more
Tasmi Quazi The Asiye eTafuleni (AeT) team appeared in the weekly edition of the Mail & Guardian newspaper as one of the highlights of the past 25 years of its annual “Investing in the Future and Drivers of Change” Awards platform. Under 2011, the article shows a picture of the AeT team at the awards … Read more
Tasmi Quazi & Richard Dobson After touring the Markets of Warwick, local photographer, Mike Van Heerden, published a captivating album of his experience on the Ocean Driven Media blog. For AeT, the images portray strong and purposeful individuals engaged in informal livelihood strategies that enable them to support their dependents. Within the arts and … Read more
Tasmi Quazi Collaborative Design: An Alternate Way, is the title and proposition of an article written by Asiye eTafuleni’s (AeT) Research Officer, as featured in the KZ-NIA Journal 1/2013, from pages 10-13. It is the feature article in a special journal edition called “Spilt Milk”, an initiative aimed at fostering collaboration and inclusivity between architects … Read more
Written by Megan MacLeod, Photo-essay by Tasmi Quazi Without a doubt, Afrika Ntuli, leader of the cardboard recyclers of Palmer Street, is the star of AeT’s display at Durban’s Exhibition Centre for the 2013 Sustainable Living Exhibition (SLE). Indeed, he is a little hard to miss, with his homemade cardboard top-hat festooned with a jaunty … Read more
Phumzile Xulu Markets of Warwick Tour, a community tourism product from Warwick Junction, won the Best Marquee Stand Award at this year’s Durban International Boat and Lifestyle Show. This is a second time as last year; Markets of Warwick Tour won the same award. The show celebrated its 10th year on the 28 – 30 … Read more
Richard Dobson & Tasmi Quazi The state approaches to the determined pursuit of “world class” urbanism without adequate public participation, and the ensuing protests in both Brazil and Turkey of late, are corroborating the South African experience. Namely, how damaging this approach is to basic service provision for lower socio-economic groups of society. The increased … Read more
