Recycling, a way to fight unemployment
Ashriff Moosa stated that S.A Mega is a recycling company that purchases all types of recyclable materials.
Founder and chairperson for the South African Justice League Foundation which is a non-profit organisation (NPO) and the owner of S.A Mega Distributors speak to us about how they trying to fight unemployment in our community.
Ashriff Moosa stated that S.A Mega is a recycling company that purchases all types of recyclable materials and the non-profit organisation was started after him and his team saw the bite of unemployment in the community and decided to go around with their vehicles with scales to weigh goods and then purchase them from mainly households.
Moosa explained that as an NPO they go door-to-door and when people are willing to sell they weigh the goods and then pay the person on the spot. The company was registered in 2012 and the NPO was registered on May 1 this year.
“We’ve been working in Riverlea, New Canada, Pennyville, Noordgesig, and have informally employed around five hundred people from those communities.
“We keep the communities clean because we having people picking up things from the street and that is basically for them to get the little money to put food on the table for their families. This is just until they find proper employment,” said Moosa.
The NPO has permanent drivers and then people on the streets, collecting the goods. The owner stated that they are also in discussion with the government because they as a foundations have solutions to solving unemployment.
The NPO practically takes in plastics, cold drink cans, cardboard, glass, metals, broken mattresses, anything that is recyclable. According to Moosa, the main objective of the NPO is community upliftment and they are also going against the government because of the high fuel prices.
The owner said that when fuel prices increase companies usually have to let go of workers so that they can have money for the petrol in their vehicles when fuel prices increase, food and everything else goes up too and the people who are unemployed struggle the most.
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Due to many reports and vandalism in our community, Moosa was asked how they know if the goods are not stolen, he responded by saying:
“That is why we come to your household, we make sure that its purchased at the household, we do not purchase things halfway along the road.
“We also have people sign a form which states that it is your products and that if it is stolen we can take the police to the house that we purchased the goods from. We also don’t purchase new goods so it’s always old scrape.”
If you would like to know more about the organisation you can contact them at email SAJUSTICELEAGUEFOUNDATION@gmail.com.
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