Nearly 30 years after taking on the post as principal at his alma mater, South Peninsula High School, Brian Isaacs, says he remains passionate about his work and is determined to see the school excel to new heights. This despite him being embroiled in a number of legal battles and disciplinary hearings.
Barbara Maregele
News | 4 May 2015
Yesterday Judge Fabricius of the Pretoria High Court handed down an order in the case of Robin Stransham-Ford.
Timothy Fish Hodgson
News | 1 May 2015
Today, 1 May, South Africa celebrates Workers’ Day. In the third and last in a series of articles, Leonard Gentle argues that a new labour movement will have to be part of a broader social movement.
Leonard Gentle
Opinion | 1 May 2015
On Thursday, Social Justice Coalition activist Angy Peter escaped imprisonment and was given leave to appeal the sentencing.
Nombulelo Damba
News | 30 April 2015
Last week we published the story of the Sibhozo brothers. Many readers asked how they could help. Here is how.
GroundUp Staff
News | 30 April 2015
Cosatu’s biggest union, Numsa with 340,000 members, has been expelled from the federation. Half of Cosatu’s affiliates have allied themselves with Numsa and are operating outside Cosatu’s fold. But does the crisis in Cosatu matter? Does it make any difference to class struggle in defending and promoting working class interests?
Martin Jansen
Opinion | 30 April 2015
Readers of a GroundUp story about a Khayelitsha crèche that was robbed last month have responded generously by donating over R10,000 to the facility.
Barbara Maregele
News | 30 April 2015
Congolese refugee Sebastien Bazolo, 50, gave up his Durban job to flee back to Cape Town when xenophobia broke out in KwaZulu Natal.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 30 April 2015
Tomorrow, May 1, South Africa celebrates Workers’ Day. In the second of three articles, Leonard Gentle analyses the recent history of the labour movement in South Africa.
Leonard Gentle
Opinion | 30 April 2015
The report on the six villages in Sicwenza who have been without running water for seventeen years … Read more
The massacre in the Marikana informal settlement, where eight people were executed in cold blood, i… Read more
I have my own issues with how the Durban High Court operates, specifically with regard to missing f… Read more
Whatever the conservation pressures in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Constitution does not perm… Read more
If ever there was reason for our National Government to threaten Expropriation without compensation… Read more
