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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