With only hours to go before the cut-off time, farm workers union Csaawu (Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union) has raised the target amount of R115,000 in its first phase of online crowd funding. The money will go towards paying for legal costs incurred for defending dismissed farm workers in the Cape Town Labour Court last year.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 2 February 2015
Philippi residents say there is just no getting rid of the rats terrorising them in their homes. But the City of Cape Town has a plan to introduce owls to solve the problem.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 2 February 2015
The Qāuran and the Prophet Mohammed cannot be held responsible for the Jihadi atrocities of Boko Haram or the Islamic State groups any more than can the Christian Gospels and Jesus be held responsible for apartheid or the Ku Klux Klan. To claim otherwise is simply illogical.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 2 February 2015
Kwiinyanga ezimbalwa ezidlulileyo akukho mntu wayenokucingela ukuba uDJ osakhasayo waseKhayelitsha angavelisa enye yeengoma ezinkqenkqeza phambili zika-2014: āuKoze Kuseā.
NguZethu Gqola
News | 30 January 2015
The Wine Industry Ethical Trade Association (Wieta), which lists some of the country's top producers, appears to have recanted on its promise to investigate allegations of assault on a farm worker by one of its members. A board member says the organisation has double standards - quick to help its farm owning members, while sweeping aside complaints of abuse from workers.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 30 January 2015
The owner of Eilandia farm will stand trial on charges of assaulting and strangling an employee in the Robertson Magistrates Court on Friday. Whatever the outcome of the case, a local farm workersā union has heralded the police investigation and court appearance as a victory.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 30 January 2015
It is only 10am on a Wednesday morning and A.C.J. Phakade primary school students in Nomzamo township (near Strand in Cape Town) are already walking home or waiting for shuttles to fetch them.
Zintle Swana
News | 29 January 2015
A few months ago no one could have predicted that a small-time DJ from Khayelitsha would produce what would be one of the hits of 2014: āKoze Kuseā.
Zethu Gqola
News | 29 January 2015
Hundreds of learners are using a tent in Mfuleniās Bardale neighbourhood as a school after parents say they were turned away from primary and high schools in the area which are full.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 29 January 2015
Manenberg residents believe night marches by community members and increased police visibility helped to restore peace to the area this week.
Barbara Maregele
News | 28 January 2015
Zola Square in Site C, Khayelitsha, was the site of yet another shack fire yesterday.
Photos by Masixole Feni. Text by Kevin Elliott.
Brief | 28 January 2015
Bayhill United Legacy Grounds in Rocklands was abuzz at the weekend as teams from across Cape Town competed in the play-offs of the 2015 U19 Metropolitan Premier Cup, also known as the Bayhill Cup.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 28 January 2015
Hundreds of unemployed Kimberley residents have turned to digging deserted mine dumps to earn a living.
Douglas Mthukwane
News | 27 January 2015
Draft regulations for drone usage in South Africa do not have safeguards against the use of the devices by the state as weapons or to invade peopleās privacy, activists have warned. But the sub-committee in charge of compiling the regulations has said Constitutional rights will not be violated.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 27 January 2015
Three Zimbabwean men whose permits are pending have been told to leave their jobs at Touareg Tents in Capricorn Business Park and return only when they can prove they are legally in the country.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 27 January 2015
Last week Nikki Stein from SECTION27 expressed reservations about the piloting of paperless classrooms at seven township schools in Gauteng. MEC for Education in the province, Panyaza Lesufi, responds here.
Panyaza Lesufi
Opinion | 27 January 2015
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