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From Ocean View and Lavender Hill to player of the season: GroundUp interviews Ashley Hartog

GroundUp interviewed Ashley Hartog, the midfielder for Supersport United who won the club's Player of the Season and the Players' Player of the Season awards for the 2011/12 season.

Margo Fortune

News | 18 July 2012

Information Technology and the Treatment Action Campaign: successes and pitfalls

On 10 December 1998, about 10 people picketed outside St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town. They demanded that the state roll out a programme to reduce the risk of pregnant women transmitting HIV to their infants and for drug companies to lower their HIV medicine prices. This marked the modest beginning of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

Nathan Geffen

Opinion | 18 July 2012

Khayelitsha leader murdered

Mnoneleli Ngubo, a leading member of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, was stabbed to death in his Khayelitsha home on Tuesday 3 July.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 11 July 2012

Khayelitsha winter in photos

Phumeza Mlungwana took photos of the effects of winter flooding on Khayelitsha's RR and TR sections.

Phumeza Mlungwana

Brief | 11 July 2012

Winter in the shacks of Khayelitsha

The rain makes life even more difficult for the residents of Taiwan in Khayelitsha.

Mary-Jane Matsolo

News | 11 July 2012

Man in Gugs flat: “Living here is not life”

Kholekile Tisana is partially blind and has lived in a block of flats called Somafu in Gugulethu for the past year. He says living there is the same as living in a shack.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 11 July 2012

Somali trader: “It’s hell-fire in Somalia. It’s hell-fire in South Africa”

Abdirahaman Abdiwali, a leader in the local Somali community, explained some the difficulties Somalis face to GroundUp.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 11 July 2012

Mitchells Plain soup kitchen continues murdered man’s legacy

Every Wednesday in Hyde Park, Mitchells Plain, a group of people both young and old gather outside a one bedroom house waiting to be given a bowl of hot soup and a slice of bread. This community project was started in 2009 by Quinton Welman.

Veronica Washaya

News | 11 July 2012

Murdered Nyanga activist for lesbian rights remembered

A memorial service was held for Phumeza Nkolonzi on 5 July in Nyanga.

Nokubonga Yawa

Brief | 11 July 2012

The indispensable role of progressive civil society

This is COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s, opening address to the Equal Education National Congress in Tembisa on 8 July 2012.

Zwelinzima Vavi

Opinion | 11 July 2012