Phumelele Mkhize For people living and working informally, the opportunity to travel and exchange ideas with similar people from other places in the world is rare. In August 2016, a team from Asiye eTafuleni (amongst whom were two women...
Photo courtesy of Thomas Ferreira Annalise Mathers Last month, Durban sadly lost one of its most gregarious informal recyclers, Afrika Ntuli, to a taxi accident. In the past few weeks, friends, family, and colleagues have worked together to gather funds...
Photo taken by Emilia Bonsembiante, received from Michael Flanagan at designworkshop:sa Annalise Mathers The International Architecture Exhibition Biennale is widely recognized as one of the most famous and prestigious artistic events in the world. This year, marking the 15th edition...
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...
Tasmi Quazi On Monday the 11th of August, at the 9th Diakonia Lecture and presentation of the human rights award given to “local heroes”, Asiye eTafuleni’s (AeT) Project Leader was chosen as the 2014 recipient of this significant award...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Patrick Ndlovu & Tasmi Quazi AeT’s role within the development of the Dennis Hurley Centre linked to the historic Emmanuel Cathedral – situated at the heart of Durban’s inner city – is to ensure the inclusion of informal workers...