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
The Warwick market clean up campaign was featured in The Mercury on the 13th of May 2010 and in the Daily Sun on the 14th of May, as volunteers took to the streets of Warwick Junction armed with brooms and buckets.
The Markets of Warwick walking tour was recently featured in The Mercury on the 2nd of June 2010.
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
An article from the Metro Beat on the Imagine Durban Cardboard Recycling Project, published on 3 December 2010.
On 27 January 2011, Asiye eTafuleni was alerted through local newspapers, [download id=”4″] and the [download id=”5″], about a violent scuffle between South African Police Service (SAPS) officials and traders on the 26th of January at the site from which they operate, in the central markets of the Workshop Shopping Centre. The chairperson of the … Read more
As an Imagine Durban Demonstration Project, we the implementing organisation, Asiye eTafuleni, were asked to showcase the Inner city Cardboard Recycling Project at the Sustainable City Exhibition held between 13-15th of August 2010 at the ICC Exhibition Centre. Asiye eTafuleni used this platform to showcase the processes of the project including the proposed trolleys, equipments … Read more
On 14 October 2010, the International Centre for Eye care Education (ICEE) celebrated this year’s World Site Day (WSD) by providing free eye care examinations to the informal workers of Warwick Junction and the inner-city area. WSD is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. It serves as … Read more
It has been widely recognised that Warwick Junction is a very unique asset exhibiting the only markets of such size and diversity available anywhere across South Africa, which allows tourists exposure to an authentic African experience. Subsequently, the Markets of Warwick Project has been initiated in 2010 by the local traders, in the Warwick Junction … Read more
