Summary image for article

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

By

News | 4 February 2025

Summary image for article

Afriforum lobbied Trump about land expropriation. Now he wants to cut South Africa’s health funding

By

GroundView | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor

Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury

By

News | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

West Coast beaches polluted by oil spill

Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy

By

News | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres

Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste

By

Photo Essay | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

Children walk over an hour and wade across a river to get to Fort Beaufort school

The bridge to Oakdene Primary washed away about 15 years ago

By

Brief | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

Media must avoid careless references to foreign nationals when reporting crimes

A critical look at the recent press ombud ruling in Asylum Seeker, Refugee and Migrant Coalition v BloemNews

By

Law | 3 February 2025

Summary image for article

D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site

Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre

By

News | 31 January 2025

Summary image for article

Quick explainer: Interest rates and how they affect you

By

Explainer | 31 January 2025

Elections 2026

How is your municipality doing?

We are doing in depth reports on municipalities across the country ahead of the 2026 local elections.

Elections 2026

Charts

Summary image for article

Failing water systems will cost R400-billion to fix, says minister

Summary image for article

Cape Flats murders are on the rise

Summary image for article

What the latest tests say about beach water quality

Summary image for article

Whatever Trump says, whites are not doing badly in South Africa

Click here for more charts

Most Read

  1. Ethics company told to pay back Lottery money
  2. Trains will be back on this Joburg line soon
  3. State Attorney calls for a new Road Accident Fund tribunal
  4. “Ethics” company applied to gag GroundUp
  5. Over 600 people left homeless by Masiphumelele fire

Most time spent reading

  1. How informal businesses are reduced to rubble
  2. Fire survivors rebuild with bricks despite City regulations
  3. Families take refuge in churches after Limpopo floods
  4. On board the Rainbow Warrior — the iconic Greenpeace ship
  5. Massacre on the Cape Flats: police search for gunmen

Our answers to your questions

Selected letters to the editor

Broken generator in Flagstaff: 17 years of thirst

The report on the six villages in Sicwenza who have been without running water for seventeen years … Read more

Cape Flats massacre: A symptom of a surrendered state

The massacre in the Marikana informal settlement, where eight people were executed in cold blood, i… Read more

Suspended magistrate: Slow and incompetent judges

I have my own issues with how the Durban High Court operates, specifically with regard to missing f… Read more

St Lucia fishers: protect the constitutional rights of the small-fishers

Whatever the conservation pressures in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Constitution does not perm… Read more

District Six evictions: A polite "no thank you"

If ever there was reason for our National Government to threaten Expropriation without compensation… Read more