Thandokhulu High School in Mowbray is a school serving children from townships despite being in a middle-class area. With fewer resources than the other schools in the neighbourhood, Thandokhulu is nevertheless starting to achieve high standards.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 27 June 2012
A lot of party animals will know Barmooda Lounge in Observatory Cape Town.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 27 June 2012
GroundUp interviewed Supersport United's exciting talent, 19-year-old striker, Jerry Mxabo.
Margo Fortune
News | 27 June 2012
South Africa Inc is a āfrontingā exercise in which the people of the country are the hapless stooges giving credibility to a governing elite.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 27 June 2012
A man who contracted tuberculosis (TB) while in prison is in a long-running court battle with the Department of Correctional Services.
GroundUp Staff
News | 20 June 2012
Dudley Lee was arrested in 1999 and spent the next four years in Pollsmoor Prison, while he was tried for fraud and other financial crimes. About 70 court appearances later, he was found not guilty. While in prison he became sick with TB.
GroundUp Staff
News | 20 June 2012
The street lights on Lansdowne in Khayelitsha have not worked for years. After noticing a long portion of Lansdowne Road without working street lights, I interviewed people who walk along the road.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 20 June 2012
A document called "Perils and Pitfalls ā Migrants and Deportations in South Africa," recently released by People Against Suffering and Oppression, explains how the rights of refugees, children and black South Africans are infringed and abused.
By Tariro Washinyira
News | 20 June 2012
This is a speech given by Doron Isaacs, director of Equal Education, at an Ndifuna Ukwazi seminar on 16 June.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Leo Mbobi tells of his struggle to get his ill brother treated for HIV.
Leo Mbobi
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Marcus Low reviews a new documentary about the work of Sonke Gender Justice, You Can't Just Fold Your Arms.
Marcus Low
Opinion | 20 June 2012
The right to education will not be realised as long as there is such massive inequality between schools across the world.
Morgan Dzakowic
Opinion | 20 June 2012
There have been many media reports of shortages of medicines to treat AIDS over the last few weeks. But the medicine shortages go beyond antiretrovirals and there are even shortages of vaccines.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 June 2012
A group of activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) ran the Comrades Marathon on Sunday 4 June.
Veronica Washaya and Janine Fortuin
News | 12 June 2012
COSATU is facing an unprecedented onslaught. Is the federation, as Helen Zille claims, āthe main roadblock in the road to job creation and redressā? And would ālowering the cost of employmentā be the ābiggest single step towards solving the unemployment problemā?
Ilan Strauss and Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 12 June 2012
Over this past week, the National Union of Metalworkers congress has again put both nationalisation and the Freedom Charter firmly onto the political agenda.
Terry Bell
News | 8 June 2012
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