Stellenbosch shack fire survivors have expressed anxiety about the involvement of the ANC dominated Kayamandi Development Forum (KDF) in their new government housing development project.
Mandla Mnyakama and GroundUp Staff
News | 25 May 2015
City Press reported on Sunday the names of some people involved in a R51 billion PRASA tender for new train coaches. These included businessmen with close ties to the ANC, such as Thalente Myeni, son of Dudu Myeni who is the chairperson of SAA, as well as Pearl Zuma, a distant cousin of the president.
Text by GroundUp Staff. Photos by Masixole Feni.
News | 19 May 2015
Studying at UCT is expensive and many students struggle to pay the fees, though both the university and the state do try to support students. In the fifth and final part of our series on UCT and transformation we look at fees and finances.
GroundUp Staff
Feature | 14 May 2015
A few hundred people marched through Cape Town this morning, demanding that dagga be legalised.
Photos: Bernard Chiguvare. Text: GroundUp Staff.
News | 9 May 2015
The racial composition of lecturers and researchers at UCT is one of the most heated topics of debate when it comes to the university’s transformation. In the fourth article in our series, we report the statistics and arguments concerning transformation of UCT’s academic staff.
GroundUp Staff
Feature | 5 May 2015
Last week we published the story of the Sibhozo brothers. Many readers asked how they could help. Here is how.
GroundUp Staff
News | 30 April 2015
Thousands of people marched against xenophobia in Johannesburg on Thursday 24 April. The march proceeded through Constitutional Hill, Hillbrow, the CBD and Newtown. Here is a selection of photos.
GroundUp Staff
News | 23 April 2015
What should and what should not be taught at our universities? The demands of the Rhodes Must Fall students include calls for major changes to the content of courses at UCT. In the third article in our series we report on some of the debates over what students are taught.
GroundUp Staff
Feature | 23 April 2015
Is the University of Cape Town (UCT) transforming? In this, the second article in our series, we look at how the student body is changing.
GroundUp Staff
Feature | 16 April 2015
Is the University of Cape Town (UCT) transforming? What does transformation mean? In a series of articles GroundUp provides the key facts and arguments on the main points of contention facing South Africa’s oldest tertiary institution.
GroundUp Staff
Feature | 9 April 2015
Metrorail security guards have been holding passengers found without tickets. For example, on Steenberg station, commuters are ushered into a cage on the platform and told they will be held until they pay.
GroundUp Staff
News | 23 February 2015
The ANC Youth League Free State has called for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to be deregistered. This follows TAC's "Fire Benny" campaign, which calls for the dismissal of the province's Health MEC Benny Malakoane.
Nathan Geffen and GroundUp Staff
News | 19 February 2015
President Zuma's State of the Nation Address was thin on detail. Here are a list of questions that we suggest Members of Parliament could ask, so that people living in South Africa will be better informed.
GroundUp Staff
Analysis | 13 February 2015
In a strongly worded response to a memorandum received from the Student Representative Council (SRC) and the Progressive Youth Alliance at the Durban University of Technology, vice-chancellor Ahmed Bawa has written that it is "outrageous, preposterous and a deep violation of our National Constitution and every human rights principle" for these organisations to have demanded the deregistration of Jewish students.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 11 February 2015
A new fund worth $25 million (R284 million) was announced at the District 6 Museum in Cape Town today. It will support organisations that are working to “advance constitutionalism”.
GroundUp Staff
News | 5 February 2015
With only hours to go before the cut-off time, farm workers union Csaawu (Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union) has raised the target amount of R115,000 in its first phase of online crowd funding. The money will go towards paying for legal costs incurred for defending dismissed farm workers in the Cape Town Labour Court last year.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 2 February 2015