Sesākhona Peopleās Rights Movement supporters came in their numbers to protest outside the Western Cape High Court about an interdict the City of Cape Town seeks to stop them protesting.
Johnnie Isaac
Brief | 9 September 2014
The University of Cape Town is changing its admissions policy to take into account disadvantage as well as race. The new policy is complex. We have tried here to explain it accurately and simply.
Katy Scott and GroundUp staff
Feature | 8 September 2014
An unbearable smell lingers in the air of RR Section to the point where you can taste it. This is the daily struggle for Khayelitsha residents who live next to overflowing drains and toilets that still remain unfixed by the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 September 2014
More DJs are being recruited from our local townships to showcase their talents on international stages, thanks to organisations such as Bridges for Music and Redbull. However, it seems as though Cape Town itself is not so accommodating.
Zethu Gqola
News | 8 September 2014
In the past two months, five sex workers have been murdered in Cape Town. Three of the victims were under 26. Advocacy organisations partly blame the continued criminalization of sex work.
Barbara Maregele
News | 8 September 2014
Our justly praised Constitution and the institutions it created have taken something of a verbal battering over the past week and more ā and often for the wrong reasons. In the process, the office of the public protector has become something of a surrogate battleground for the opposing factions in Cosatu.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 8 September 2014
Andries Joostenberg, the retired farmworker who was evicted along with his family from a farmhouse in which they had lived for 26 years, has applied for urgent leave to appeal the court order which legalised the eviction. Papers were filed by family lawyer Johan van der Merwe in the Land Claims Court (LCC) on Wednesday.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 5 September 2014
Defence advocate William King argued that conflicting testimonies of key state witnesses and the ādeliberateā interference from the police constituted proof of his clientās innocence.
Barbara Maregele
News | 5 September 2014
Some young people believe that being a member of a prison gang is the only way they can get recognition. There are those who also believe that the only way to leave the gang is through death.
Pharie Sefali
News | 5 September 2014
In a bid to tackle the many police āinefficienciesā highlighted by scores of residents in the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry report, community organisations plan to host a joint crime summit with police.
Barbara Maregele
News | 5 September 2014
DA leader and Western Cape premier Helen Zille has again entered the HIV prevention arena, telling us we are failing to deal with HIV because we donāt have the right approach to taking personal responsibility for sexual behaviours.
Francois Venter
Opinion | 4 September 2014
A year ago, Bulumko High School in Khayelitsha made the news when learners were afraid to go to classes because of gang fights that were happening inside the school and in the surrounding area.
Pharie Sefali
News | 4 September 2014
This week in political activism we look at Sonke Gender Justiceās call for government to take urgent action on hate crime, charges laid by TAC against senior health officials in Bloemfontein, and the launch of an urgent intervention on behalf of Marikana residents.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 4 September 2014
A US court has ruled against the Khulumani Support Group in its 12-year legal battle to bring US corporations to book for aiding the apartheid government. But Khulumani will appeal against this ruling, says national director Marjorie Jobson.
Shandana Mufti
News | 4 September 2014
In 2010 there were 3228 matrics in Khayelitshaās 19 high schools. They achieved just 44 āAā symbols between them, in all subjects.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 4 September 2014
Despite the positive role Khayelitsha band Warongx and their Khayelitsha Music Academy play in the community, official and formal support for them is largely absent.
Nicholas Ashby
News | 4 September 2014
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