Articles for GroundUp Staff

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

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Feature | 20 October 2023

Protests in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians

Dean of St Georges Cathedral calls for peace vigil

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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

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Brief | 11 October 2023

Economists warn against “chaotic budget cuts”

We’re not facing an immediate fiscal crisis, says Institute for Economic Justice

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News | 6 October 2023

Hamba Kahle Mkhuseli Sizani

29 March 1981 to 12 September 2023

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Obituary | 15 September 2023

Government admits Thabo Bester has escaped

Department of Correctional Services statement confirms findings of GroundUp’s investigations

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Brief | 25 March 2023

NEHAWU says strike action is growing

Patients turned away from some hospitals as public sector wage strike continues

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News | 7 March 2023

GroundUp’s Raymond Joseph wins journalist of the year award for exposing Lottery corruption

For years he has been tenaciously reporting on shenanigans at the National Lotteries Commission

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News | 25 November 2022

Yoliswa Dwane, co-founder of Equal Education, has died

Under her leadership the organisation ran widely acclaimed campaigns to improve school infrastructure and install libraries in township schools

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Obituary | 21 October 2022

Zimbabweans trying to leave SA not being turned back: Home Affairs explains

The department says people without valid documents are being referred to documentation counters but choose not to go

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Brief | 19 September 2022

How bad is health care in Zimbabwe?

It’s not great but not as bad as MEC Phophi Ramathuba has suggested

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Brief | 30 August 2022

Gauteng health system in crisis

We are publishing a series of videos showing the appalling human rights abuses in the province’s hospitals

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Video | 7 April 2022

Desmond Tutu was a moral voice for South Africa and the world

Although he was a Christian leader in his official work, atheists, agnostics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and people of all religions have been led and guided by him

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Obituary | 26 December 2021