By Tamryn Coats The Markets of Warwick tours featured in the Cosmopolitan Magazine in its December 2011 issue on page 21, featured under “Cosmo Hot Stuff’ – What’s up, What’s new and What’s unmissable this month.” In this feature is a list of 20 items listed that range from new music to ‘things to do’ [...]
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Umlazi Confiscations of Trader Goods
This article was featured in the Daily Sun on 10th October 2011, titled ‘Cops’ Clean Sweep’ about the everyday reality and challenge faced by ‘informal’ traders due to instances of excessive police enforcement. What’s more, is the disregard of legal processes by police officials in ensuring that confiscated goods are returned to the traders after [...]
A Taste of Warwick
Garth Johnstone writes, ‘A tour of the markets of Durban’s Warwick area is a wonderful assault on the senses. An innovative NGO/is conducting walking tours of this hub of culture and commerce… Asiye eTafuleni has taken up the cudgels and since about the time that the World Cup kicked off they have been offering the [...]
Design with the other 90%
Warwick Junction, under the rubric ‘iTRUMP’ (Inner Thekwini Regeneration & Urban Management Program) is being exhibited at the Smithsonian’s CooperHewitt, National DesignMuseum, as part of its project called ‘Design with the other 90%: CITIES’. The idea of ‘Design for the Other 90%’ exhibition, developed in 2007, is an ongoing series that focuses on design solutions [...]
Coping with crisis
As a partner in the Inclusive Cities project and WIEGO’s research network, Asiye eTafuleni – as a support organisation for informal workers along with membership-based organisations (MBOs) of informal workers – came together to assess the impact of the recession on home-based workers, street vendors, and waste pickers, across cities and regions in the developing [...]
Proposed amendments to regulating cigarette sales
Asiye eTafuleni was asked to assist street traders selling cigarettes to look at the implications of the proposed amendments to regulations of the sale of cigarettes. It was found that the proposed amendments do not adequately account for street trading dynamics in their definitions and frameworks, and hence this sector would be unfairly targeted. It [...]
Warwick development shelved
Asiye eTafuleni has been involved in evaluating responses by city officials to a proposed Mall. The latter state of events has been brought by individual street traders that stand to be displaced because of the proposed Mall, who have subsequently launched a lawsuit against the local municipality with the assistance of the Legal Resources Centre. [...]
Warwick tour guides’ graduation in the news!
Who better to show tourists all that Durban’s Warwick Junction Markets have to offer than the people who kept it alive? Our traders turned tour guides graduated in December 2010, and were featured in Isolezwe and The Mercury. Unfortunately a misprint in the Isolezwe article reported Mr. Patric Ndlovu as one of the traders that [...]
Warwick Market clean up campaign
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.
Warwick Triangle takes on a new lease of life
The Markets of Warwick walking tour was recently featured in The Mercury on the 2nd of June 2010.
