Articles for GroundUp Staff
Budget: Social grants go up but not by much
Old age, war veterans, disability and care dependency grants up by R90 in April and another R10 from October
News | 21 February 2024
SCA refuses to hear appeal by dodgy Lottery lawyer
The Legal Practice Council will now have to reconsider GroundUp’s complaint against Lesley Ramulifho
Law | 1 February 2024
South African journalists hold vigil in solidarity with Palestinian journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists has recorded 83 deaths since 7 October but is investigating many other unconfirmed deaths of reporters
Brief | 28 January 2024
2023 in Photos: From the high of winning the World Cup to a devastating inner city fire
A photo of Thabo Bester, officially dead in a prison fire, shopping in Sandton became the story of the year
Photo Essay | 18 December 2023
South Africa: key statistics ahead of the 2024 elections
Here is how we’re doing on unemployment, murder, housing, life-expectancy and social grants
Explainer | 18 December 2023
Here are the 2023 Vodacom journalism award winners
Journalist of the Year award shared by News24 and GroundUp
Brief | 1 December 2023
This is where people are occupying Metrorail’s Central Line in Cape Town
There are about 4,000 households occupying the line between Nyanga and Philippi, according to the Housing Development Agency
By Sandiso Phaliso and GroundUp Staff
Feature | 20 October 2023
Protests in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians
Dean of St Georges Cathedral calls for peace vigil
News | 11 October 2023
Bester and Magudumana threaten court action to stop book release
Thabo Bester wants to “avoid being prosecuted by and in the media”, according to his lawyers
Brief | 11 October 2023