Articles for GroundUp Staff
Masiphumelele shack dwellers threaten to occupy land if City doesn’t give dates for new houses
Plato blames De Lille for making promises to community. De Lille says: “He’s talking nonsense.”
By Ella Ndongeni and GroundUp Staff
News | 18 March 2019
Former PRASA Rail CEO back in the dock for fraud
Mthuthuzeli Swartz, who is also accused of stealing railway lines and sleepers, attacks #UniteBehind and makes allegations against his former colleagues
By Joseph Chirume and GroundUp Staff
News | 28 February 2019
Case not closed: Cape High Court backlog showing no signs of improving
Thirteen judgments are over six months late, twice the amount of time set out in the judicial norms
Law | 25 February 2019
Stats SA’s confusing mining employment statistics
Quarterly Labour Force Survey is the definitive source for most sectors, but not for mining
Analysis | 21 February 2019
How employment has changed in 10 years
Manufacturing — a vital industrial sector — has shed 300,000 jobs
News | 13 February 2019
Got a question? We’ll try to answer it
We’re answering questions about schools, social grants, banks, debt, difficult bosses, and even love (maybe)
GroundView | 6 February 2019
Sex workers campaign for law to be changed
“It’s like any other type of work”
By Ashraf Hendricks and GroundUp Staff
Feature | 4 February 2019
Mfuleni schools shut down as unplaced learners protest
Education department says enrolments in Western Cape have increased by more than 18,000
By Vincent Lali, Masixole Feni and GroundUp Staff
News | 4 February 2019
Protestors demand R70 billion compensation for inventor of please call me service
Movement says it is making plans to shut down Vodacom service
By Zoë Postman and GroundUp Staff
News | 31 January 2019