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African Reclaimers Organisation members stand in front of the trucks they use to collect waste from communities and industrial sites.
AFRICAN RECLAIMERS ORGANISATION

Reclaimers bemoan loss of livelihoods

About 140 waste pickers, who had spent years recovering recyclables from a landfill site, say they were given just a day’s notice that it would close

  • Dianah Chiyangwa
4 min read
Queer activist and filmmaker Bev Ditsie provides compelling reflections in the film (Supplied)
A NEW COUNTRY

Review: ‘A New Country’ portrays the lingering aftertaste of a bittersweet freedom

Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel

  • Kwanele Sosibo
7 min read
Reduced load: Waste reclaimer Steven Leeu of the African Reclaimers Organisation. The lockdown has threatened the reclaimers’. (Paul Botes/M&G) livelihoods. They collect between 80% and 90% of the country’s recyclable waste from people’s bins.
AFRICAN RECLAIMERS ORGANISATION

Waste pickers reclaim their power

Reclaimers have not been deemed essential workers amid the Covid-19 lockdown, threatening their already precarious livelihoods. But they will not let each other starve

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read