This past Saturday, 28 July, saw the launch of the ‘My Vote Counts’ campaign. The event took place at the District Six Museum in Cape Town and was attended by more than 40 social activists, all of whom participated in their personal capacities. The occasion was marked by speeches from veteran activist Zackie Achmat, director of Cape Town-based social justice organisation Ndifuna Ukwazi, and well-known cartoonist Jonathan ‘Zapiro’ Shapiro.
Fritz Schoon
Opinion | 1 August 2012
There is a large Zimbabwean community in Cape Town. When members die, their friends and family usually want them to be buried back home in Zimbabwe.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 1 August 2012
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games opened in London on 27 July 2012. GroundUp interviewed Brian Dzingai who raced against Usain Bolt in the 200 metres at the Beijing Olympics. Dzingai is fom Zimbabwe, but is currently located in Paris.
Veronica Washaya
News | 1 August 2012
Most young people living in Cape Town's townships are unemployed and have little chance of getting a job.
GroundUp Editor
News | 25 July 2012
Prince Ikenna came to South Africa from Nigeria in 2010 and has set up a successful salon and cosmetics business.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 25 July 2012
Tinashe Nhidza is a 35-year-old Zimbabwean taxi cab driver operating in Cape Town.
Veronica Washaya
News | 25 July 2012
Many drivers get irritated with the youths who, without asking for permission first, wash their windscreens at traffic lights.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 25 July 2012
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. So wrote the much-quoted 18th Century English poet, Alexander Pope. And, although this has all too often described the
futility of chasing after rainbows and never finding a promised pot of gold, hope continues to sustain millions of people in situations that, to the more fortunate, might seem hopeless.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 25 July 2012
Admire Siya is just 25-years old and from Zimbabwe. He has set up an IT shop in his home in Gardens.
Veronica Washaya
News | 25 July 2012
Nestled underneath a concrete highway, the District Six Haven shelter is a modest, two-story house where 80 of the area’s homeless live.
Allen Jiang and Audrey Leasure
News | 25 July 2012
Last Wednesday, gay and lesbian rights organisations handed a memorandum to the ANC Western Cape representative, Songezo Mjongile.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 25 July 2012
For most people, opening a spaza shop is a small business venture to earn an income. For Richard Handel, it is just to keep busy.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 25 July 2012
On Saturday, Manchester United played Ajax in Cape Town as one of their pre-season training friendly matches.
Margo Fortune
News | 25 July 2012
Lucas Manya works at a stand selling building material in Makhaza, Khayelitsha.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 25 July 2012
Makazi’s take away is a busy shack that constantly has a line of customers waiting outside to be served their vetkoek (fat cakes).
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 25 July 2012
Nonyameko Sowazi, also affectionately known to her customers as “Madlamini,” runs a “binnegoed” stand at the bottom of the Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 25 July 2012
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