The Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural & Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU) is preparing for a general strike from 4 December.
Tessa Gooding
Brief | 28 November 2012
Siyakhula Waldorf Primary School will open in Masiphumele township near Fish Hoek, Cape Town, in January 2014.
Tessa Gooding
News | 28 November 2012
During the farm violence in De Doorns and other parts of the Western Cape over the last few weeks, thousands of public health system users could not get their medicines because health facilities closed down.
Kate Stegeman and Tariro Washinyira
News | 21 November 2012
An argument between a farmer and two employees has spiralled out of control. The story shows the kinds of problems fuelling the current farm tensions in the Western Cape.
Tessa Gooding and Margo Fortune
News | 21 November 2012
Isma-Eel Stanfield is only 20 and plays striker for Cape Town All Stars in the second division. On Sunday they beat FC Tygerberg and Isma-Eel scored two goals.
Margo Fortune
News | 21 November 2012
Township is a non-profit organisation that is creating jobs and providing opportunities for people living in Cape Town’s townships.
Janine Fortuin
News | 21 November 2012
We have previously told you about Khayelitsha's first coffee shop: Department of Coffee. On 17 November they had an official launch at the Khayelitsha Mall.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 21 November 2012
Sizwe Nzima is just 21 years old but he has already co-founded a business called Iyeza Express that delivers chronic medicines by bike to patients who are unable to stand in long queues at clinic pharmacies.
Mihle Pike
News | 21 November 2012
Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation's campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 21 November 2012
Seventy employees at Leeuwenkuil Farm refused to work for five days until five of their colleagues were reinstated, according to the Commerical Stevedoring Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU).
Tessa Gooding
News | 21 November 2012
Millions of South Africans at the end of apartheid dreamed of living in a house one day. This was the hope offered by the Reconstruction and Development Programme. Eighteen years later there has been progress. The Department of Housing says that over 3 million houses have been built sheltering over 13 million people. But there is a terribly long way to go.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 21 November 2012
There should have been no surprise or outrage expressed by mining companies,
agribusiness, and government officials about the recent explosion of strikes and
protests on mines and farms. And trade unionists across the board should not have
been caught flat-footed by the outbursts of anger that erupted in the North West,
Limpopo and now in the Western Cape.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 21 November 2012
The Commission of Inquiry into the allegations of police inefficiency in Khayelitsha is on hold pending the outcome of Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa's court action to stop the commission. But in his court papers Mthethwa has, perhaps unwittingly, included explosive documents which actually appear to strengthen the case for having a Commission of Inquiry.
GroundUp Editor
News | 14 November 2012
GroundUp interviewed up-and-coming Cape Town fashion designer, Melissa Samuels.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 14 November 2012
In December 2009 Thandokazi Njamela was smacked on the head with an unopened beer bottle by her friend's boyfriend. She lost consciousness and was taken to Khayelitsha's Site B Hospital.
GroundUp Staff
News | 14 November 2012
Grejimo Gates is 22 year old. For him, being a car guard at Town Centre in Mitchell's Plain is his business.
Margo Fortune
Brief | 14 November 2012
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