Ex-gang member turns life around

Suzanne, 25 years old of Kalksteen, is an ex-gang member and drug addict who is now inspiring young women in her community.

Margo Fortune

News | 20 February 2013

Lavender Hill’s Nazier Jacobs is a role model

Nazier Jacobs from Lavender Hill is a role model to many aspiring Cape Town soccer players. He is a midfielder for Milano FC and hopes to make it to the PSL.

Margo Fortune

News | 20 February 2013

Off the Grid

News | 14 February 2013

Wages in the clothing industry in South Africa

This is a debate between Professors Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings and the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU).

GroundUp Staff

News | 14 February 2013

Allegations of abuse in clothing factories

Workers in Kwazulu-Natal clothing factories have made allegations of abuse against factory owners in affidavits provided to GroundUp.

Issa Saunders

News | 13 February 2013

Early ANC election salvoes backfire

The government has loosed off the first major salvoes of the 2014 election campaign
— and all of them have backfired. That is one labour movement view of three
official announcements over the past ten days.

Terry Bell

Opinion | 13 February 2013

Continued existence of shacks is a real scandal

Yet another shack fire has devastated the BM section of Khayelitsha. On New Years morning fires raged through the community, leaving about 4,000 people homeless and killing at least four. The responses from authorities to what has now become a routine occurrence in the area have been mixed.

Ben Fogel

Opinion | 13 February 2013

Nyanga residents march against man who posted nude pictures of woman on Facebook

A group of women marched to a house in Mau-Mau, Nyanga, to confront a man they accuse of posting nude pictures of a woman, his girlfriend, on Facebook.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 13 February 2013