The Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, together with the Ekurhuleni Metro, have donated 50 waste-collecting scooters to waste pickers in Tembisa. The initiative, which is in line with the Gauteng Transformation Modernisation and Reindustrialisation Plan, is a first for the country and is aimed at improving the socioeconomic wellbeing of the waste pickers. Speaking at the launch event Gauteng Premier, David Makhura said the people of Tembisa were lucky. “We are the only government in the African content doing this and we want to expand the opportunity to make people benefit from the waste economy which is worth R17 billion in South Africa.”
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