Temporary house structures are being built in Gugulethu to accommodate residents who are currently occupying Masonwabe hostels.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 20 February 2013
Khayelitsha residents have to contend with rat infestations as a result of a City dumping container.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 February 2013
In stygian depths 4km and more below the surface of the earth gold continues to be
harvested, but by fewer miners and with the aid of more—and increasingly efficient—mechanisation.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 20 February 2013
A nineteen year-old Port Elizabeth girl born with cerebal palsy turns to sport to rise above her disability. She won a gold medal for shot-put at the SA National championships and has now taken up swimming.
Buchule Putini
News | 20 February 2013
A group of men in the Western Cape are staunch and admiring supporters of the All Blacks, the New Zealand rugby team. They love rugby and they love South Africa but they are accused of being unpatriotic.
Janine Fortuin
News | 20 February 2013
Every morning officials at the Khayelitsha Court, taxi drivers, teachers and other people on their way to work get their freshly brewed cup of hot coffee from three enterprising young men with a logo, premises and honest graft. Maintaining a small business is hard work but these guys are making their "Department of Coffee" a going concern.
Neo Sithole
News | 20 February 2013
Nazier Jacobs from Lavender Hill is a role model to many aspiring Cape Town soccer players. He is a midfielder for Milano FC and hopes to make it to the PSL.
Margo Fortune
News | 20 February 2013
Suzanne, 25 years old of Kalksteen, is an ex-gang member and drug addict who is now inspiring young women in her community.
Margo Fortune
News | 20 February 2013
This is a debate between Professors Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings and the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU).
GroundUp Staff
News | 14 February 2013
Workers in Kwazulu-Natal clothing factories have made allegations of abuse against factory owners in affidavits provided to GroundUp.
Issa Saunders
News | 13 February 2013
The government has loosed off the first major salvoes of the 2014 election campaign
— and all of them have backfired. That is one labour movement view of three
official announcements over the past ten days.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 13 February 2013
Yet another shack fire has devastated the BM section of Khayelitsha. On New Years morning fires raged through the community, leaving about 4,000 people homeless and killing at least four. The responses from authorities to what has now become a routine occurrence in the area have been mixed.
Ben Fogel
Opinion | 13 February 2013
A group of women marched to a house in Mau-Mau, Nyanga, to confront a man they accuse of posting nude pictures of a woman, his girlfriend, on Facebook.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 13 February 2013
On 7 February a teenage Khayelitsha girl, Siyamthanda Mdunyelwa, was hit by a train while crossing the railway at about 7:30pm in order to escape from the police who were breaking up a gang fight.
Mihle Pike
News | 13 February 2013
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