Immigrants soccer players aim for PSL
Professional soccer players who are refugees in South Africa have found comfort in establishing an informal soccer club, with the objective of being recognized and playing professionally again, like they did in their birth countries.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 September 2012
De Doorns farm workers strike after wages dropped
An ongoing wage dispute that led to an unprotected strike by farm workers highlights the complex relationship between farmers and workers in the De Doorns area.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 September 2012
Injury, bleeding, delayed healing and mangled penises by design
Dalli Weyers looks at the design problems with the Tara KLamp circumcision device.
Dalli Weyers
Opinion | 5 September 2012
Making sense of local government
To help us and our readers better understand local government service delivery, GroundUp has been interviewing ward councillors and residents.
GroundUp Editor
News | 5 September 2012
Khayelitsha Councillor: City ignores my community
The councillor for a major ward in Khayelitsha says the city is ignoring the real needs of his community.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 5 September 2012
Marinovich on Marikana and journalism
GroundUp interviewed investigative journalist Greg Marinovich, who has published shocking findings about the deaths of miners at Marikana.
Mara Kardas-Nelson
News | 4 September 2012
A union key to a really democratic future
The bloodbath at Lonmin’s Marikana mine served to alert more of the public to aspects of feuding and tension that have been ongoing for years and not only at Lonmin and in the mining industry generally. In particular it has highlighted the stresses, strains and battles for power and position within the trade union movement and opened up a number of debates about the way forward.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 3 September 2012
TAC pickets in support of man who got TB in prison
Dudley Lee contracted TB while he was an awaiting trial prisoner. Now he's suing the state.
Mary-Jane Matsolo and GroundUp Staff
News | 29 August 2012
Green Market Square traders face imminent eviction
At least 40 immigrants trading since 2010 at the Soko African Market, next to Green Market Square, face imminent eviction. Their attempts to negotiate for more notice time before eviction from the Kings Hotel, which owns the property, have failed.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 29 August 2012