Hlanganani MaAfrika Waste Picker Cooperative

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Primary information

Year formed

2012

Language

English

Number of members

75

Type of members

Members are waste pickers

Occupation of members

Waste pickers

Type of Organization

Cooperative

Organizational Reach

Local

Workplace of members

Landfill, Recycling center, Street

Affiliations

South african waste pickers association (sawpa)

Women composition

majority women

Social networking sites

Benefits

Member benefits

Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income

Services

Complementary Information

Information source

WORD 21/08/2013

Comments / Narrative

The municipality informally recognizes the cooperative and has agreed to work with them in the new recycling facility. 

The central demand made by the workers has been to provide work at the new facility. Additionally, they want to establish better working conditions and to run the recycling facility autonomously without middlemen. The Municipality has already agreed to these demands, as well as to providing electricity and bathrooms.