How can the intolerable situations at the Home Affairs refugees centres be improved? We make some suggestions.
GroundUp Editor
News | 29 May 2012
GroundUp is a tiny and new news organisation. Less than two months into our existence, before we have even officially launched, we have faced our first tough ethical dilemna: whether or not to pay a bribe.
GroundUp Editor
News | 29 May 2012
GroundUp received several allegations that bribes are commonplace at Maitland Refugee Reception Centre. We decided to investigate.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 29 May 2012
The transcript of the phone conversation between a GroundUp journalist and "George", a man offering to help people to get into Home Affairs for a fee.
GroundUp Journalist
News | 29 May 2012
A Gugulethu man will appear in the Athlone Magistrate’s court on Monday after he was arrested in possession of dagga worth R1.8 million.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 25 May 2012
It is wrong to say that school funding is not crucial to learner outcomes, argue Rosalind Gater and Doron Isaacs of Equal Education.
Rosalind Gater and Doron Isaacs
News | 25 May 2012
Last week Monday, a house at 28 Van Eyssen Street burned down. The residents of the house had recently been evicted when evidence was presented in court that they were manufacturing illegal drugs on the property.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 25 May 2012
GroundUp will launch on 1 June 2012. Join us at 2pm at the Site B Library in Khayelitsha.
GroundUp Staff
News | 24 May 2012
Tension and frustration ran high yesterday, when hundreds of Gugulethu residents packed the township’s Civic Hall to vent at Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa about the gangster problem.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 23 May 2012
Once the site of the 1956 Treason Trial and later a prosthetic limb factory, the building has been brought to life with art installations and greenery
The water flows all year round in the historic canals under the city’s streets
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
The decaying Rapokolana facility was built in 2005 but has never been fully operational. It is a missed opportunity for athletes from South Africa and Lesotho.
ProEthics and its director Dr Janette Minnaar tried to stop us publishing this article
Repressive regimes should have no place in our military strategy
There have been too many prepublication gag orders in recent times
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