Ikageng Ditamating
Sasolburg, South Africa
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Number of members
- 49
- Type of members
- Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Cooperative
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Dumpsite
- Objectives
- Improve livelihoods, strengthen unity and cohesion amongst waste pickers, improve prices or recycled materials
- Partnering organizations
- GroundWork, South African Waste Picker Network,
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
- Types of materials
- Metals, Paper and cardboard, Plastics
- Activities
- Selling materials, Waste collection, Waste sorting
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009
Comments / Narrative
Previously operated as two separate groups – Ikageng was made up of women and older men collecting paper and plastic and Ditamating was made up of younger men collecting metals. It was decided to unify and agreed that as a common organization all reclaimers would be able to collect all materials with profits to be shared equally. This united front would also strengthen their negotiating position with the awarding of a collection contract from the municipality.