Police close immigrant-owned spaza shops “for their own safety”
“Police are only concentrating on road blocks” complains shop owner
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: No food, no money, no job – how can we stay indoors? ask Brakpan residents
“An anxious man can do nothing else but stand on the streets and make a plan for his family to eat”
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Why court allowed father to travel between provinces to bring children home
Judge explains reasons for ruling
Law | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Civil society left to feed thousands of children on Cape Flats
Civil society network feeding more than 1,300 children in Lavender Hill and surrounds
Text by Steve Kretzmann. Photos by Brenton Geach.
Feature | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Global experts suggest plan for informal settlements
Basic income, food support, and an evictions freeze
By James Stent
News | 17 April 2020
How the Western Cape is responding to Covid-19
We had an advantage over countries in the North “because we had the opportunity to observe them, the trajectory of their epidemic, their mistakes”
By Liezl Human
News | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Lawyers urge justice minister to re-open more courts
Legal Practice Council warns of serious consequences as administration of justice grinds to a halt
News | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: A view from the townships
GroundUp’s reporters describe what they see
Feature | 16 April 2020