Malibelinye - Transforming a dumpsite into an EDEN

At Malibelinye, our mission is to turn dumpsites into gardens of EDEN! We started with one trash covered pavement in Nyanga and we have been busy with several other sites in Nyanga and Gugulethu since. Our mission won’t be complete until every dumpsite in South Africa is turned into its own Eden.

We work closely with the communities that live around these dumpsites. We ask the community to identify the site, and to provide us with assistance in getting the site cleared and prepared with planting; then helping us with the planting itself, and finally committing to provide the garden with water while it establishes itself.

What Malibelinye brings is our experience and ability to make things happen. Lately we have been getting trees and plants from the City of Cape Town’s City Parks, as well as private donors. We only take donations in kind: plants, soil, transport etc. We aren’t looking for funding yet as all our work is done by volunteers and the community so all we need are the materials to make beautiful gardens!

So if you’re part of a community that needs a dumpsite turned into an EDEN, contact us!

If you’re a private donor who can help us with plants or trees or compost, contact us!

You can DM us on Facebook, or contact Lulama Benge Dingiswayo on (060) 688-8384, or [email protected]

Some more of the folk that helped us on Heritage Day. Thanks to Yashmeen for bringing a lovely chicken dish and rolls to provide the volunteers with a meal.

Planting Day!!! The Malibelinye team was again supported by local residents who came out in force to help dig and plant. We planted two sites next to the school, and while we were busy, someone had a great idea to clear the grass that had overgrown the pavement, so we did that too! Finally, members of the team painted the tyres bright colours. All in all such a delightful day, hard work that resulted in something beautiful, and best of all the kids had so much fun helping and playing alongside.

The residents of Section 4 put in some serious labour clearing the site for us prior to our planting day. So much trash removed and soil preparation was done! We are so grateful for the community’s whole hearted involvement!

This is how the site looked before we began our work. The primary school kids were confronted with this every day they arrived at and left school.

Malibelinye - Transforming a dumpsite into an EDEN's cover photo

We have a new logo

World Clean Up Day

New Crossroads youth embark on a clean up campaign

What started as an idea to clean rubbish-piled Abonwabisi and Mfesane Streets which were posing health hazard has been expanded to the whole of the area.

While the rest of the citizens in the country were locked inside houses when lockdown was introduced, a group of unemployed youth from these streets took their spades and rakes to clean these streets that were rat-infested and turned them into a garden boasting flowers and trees.

Since then they have not looked back.

They have recently cleaned near the Shell garage next to Methodist Church.

Their mission is to beautiy Nyanga, New Cross Roads and surrounding areas.

Man greens Western Cape townships by planting gardens on dumping hotspots

We’re in the news! Great article by Good Things Guy about how the community is pulling together to make this happen.

goodthingsguy.com Lulama Benge Dingiswayo has been working to make townships like Gugulethu and Khayelitsha greener by planting gardens over dumping hotspots. Cape Tow

3 x 40L Quercus palustris
3 x 40L Platanus acerifolius
4 x 40L Brachylaena discolor
4 x 40L Nuxia floribunda
2 x 40L Syzygium cordatum
2 x 40L Ficus natalensis
2 x 40L Acacia sieberiana

Alysum Heuningblom - Carpet of snow
Portulaca Vygies - Grandiflora Double Mixed
Pansy Gesiggie - Dream Giants
Alyssum Heuningblom - Violet Queen

28 x 20L Waterbessies
1 x 50L Waterbessie,
5 x 50L Halleria lucida,
42 x 10L Spekbooms and
3 x 50L Liquid amber trees

Nyanga Corner of Terminus Road and Abonwabisi Street.

Thanks to Di Irish from Cape Green Forum - Marijke Honig, De Fynne Nursery, Shadowlands Wholesale Nursery, Samgro Wholesale Nursery, NUNO, Spectrum Marketing, Atlantic Fertlisers and Grow-Rite for their kind contributions which are helping to make Nyanga green.

Cape Green Forum - De Fynne Nursery, Shadowlands Wholesale Nursery, Samgro Wholesale Nursery, NUNO, Spectrum Marketing and Atlantic Fertlisers

🍂☘️🌺🌻🌼🌾🍄Another dumpsite that we turned into Kirstenbosch at Ny 94 & 70 Gugulethu, Cape Town🌼🍂☘️🌴🌳🍃🌺🌾

4 September 2020: Ny 94

11 & 12 September 2020: Ny 70

Neighbours create garden from dumpsite 

newframe.com Western Cape residents fed up with the unbearable stench from an illegal dumpsite that was posing a health risk used the Covid-19 lockdown to clean up and transform the waste site.

🍂☘️🌺🌻🌼🌾🍄A dumpsite that we turned into Kirstenbosch within five days at J Nontulo New Cross Roads Nyanga 🌼🍂☘️🌴🌳🍃🌺🌾

Before the revamp, passersby had to walk in the road to avoid rubbish strewn on the pavement. Now they will pass into a beautiful garden.

Malibelinye - Transforming a dumpsite into an EDEN

On Friday, 24th April 2020 a group of community members from Nyanga mobilised to start a clean up campaign in the area.

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Mandela Day 2020
People from all over Cape Town descended on Terminus Street, Nyanga East, to do their Mandela Day 67 minutes of work. Choosing to help Malibelinye turn a former dumpsite into a Garden of Eden! Trees were collected from various generous donors, and we transformed two areas!