Articles for GroundUp Staff
Former PRASA Rail boss denies charges against him
“My role in this case is to clarify the allegation … All other charges do not relate to me” says Mthuthuzeli Swartz
News | 24 January 2019
Sexual harassment: Equal Education leader found not guilty
But panel finds General Secretary acted “inappropriately”
Brief | 16 January 2019
2018: News that mattered
Land occupations on the increase, Post Office takes over social grant payments, corruption exposed at PRASA and DAFF, but also good-news stories featuring ordinary South Africans
Feature | 19 December 2018
Court rules that allocation of police in Western Cape is discriminatory
Victory for Social Justice Coalition may result in poorer areas getting more officers
By Thembela Ntongana and GroundUp Staff
Brief | 14 December 2018
Heartbreaking stories after massive Khayelitsha blaze
Hundreds of shacks destroyed and one person killed
By Vincent Lali and GroundUp Staff
News | 21 October 2018
De Lille requests investigation into Foreshore property sale
Site appears to have been sold by the City of Cape Town for much less than it was worth
News | 30 September 2018
PRASA takes disciplinary action against staff implicated in corruption
Commuter activists welcome “new era of effective, honest, transparent, and decisive governance”
News | 14 September 2018
Cape High Court backlog keeps getting worse
Seventeen judgments have been reserved for more than six months
News | 3 September 2018
How two audacious occupations are shifting the housing debate
An introduction to our series on the occupations of Helen Bowden Nurses Home and Woodstock Hospital
GroundView | 29 August 2018