About 150 students from iQhayiya High School in Khayelitsha marched to the Western Cape Department of Education to demand an answer from the acting deputy director, Benjamin Schereka, to their list of demands.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 11 November 2015
Chaos erupted at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) today as police used rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades against students protesting against the stand taken by the head of the university council.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 11 November 2015
Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades today against waste pickers protesting at a dump site in Pietermaritzburg against plans to stop them collecting on the site.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 11 November 2015
Residents of Garden City in Mfuleni braved chilly weather on Tuesday evening to voice their demands about housing to provincial government representatives.
Siyavuya Khaya
News | 11 November 2015
Every weekday morning, Kungile Mzwakadi, a 48-year-old security guard working in the city centre, takes the 5:20am train from Langa to Cape Town. For his journey to and from work, Mzwakadi spends R150 on a monthly train ticket.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 11 November 2015
Willowvale resident No-Italy Gola, 54, used a machete to fight off the man who tried to rape her. Many other women have not managed to thwart their attackers in this town where at least two rapes are reported to the police each week.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 11 November 2015
Westlake residents are angry at the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of Malawian Alfred Fonde on 8 March 2015.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 10 November 2015
Playlisted on many radio stations across the country and igniting stages in Cape Town, the Cool Kids are a Khayelitsha-based four-man crew combining DJ skills, music producing and event management. What is more, they have done it their own way.
Zethu Gqola
News | 10 November 2015
The disruption of a University of Cape Town senate meeting yesterday by about 150 protesters has been condemned by the Black Academic Caucus and the UCT Academic Union, as well as by Dean of Humanities Sakhela Buhlungu.
GroundUp Staff
News | 10 November 2015
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