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Global Waste Pickers' Day
Saturday, 1 March 2014, 6:02 pm | Global Alliance of Waste Pickers
International Waste Pickers’ Day is celebrated on March 1 in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed at the Universidad Libre de Barranquilla (University of Barranquilla). For the past 21 years since this tragic ... More >>
Struggles and Victories: Waste Pickers on the Frontline
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 2:59 pm | Global Alliance of Waste Pickers
After a night of heavy rains, waste picker Bongekile Hilda Ntshangase (50) drowned in the Msunduzi River on her way back to the New England Road landfill site after she and her husband had been to the Central Waste depot to sell recyclables on September ... More >>