Articles for GroundUp Staff
Do what you believe is the right thing, 1980s activist tells students
Activists are always in a minority, 1980s student leader Llewellyn MacMaster told students in Cape Town last night.
GroundUp Staff
News | 30 October 2015
UCT commits to “insourcing” - and other reports from the #FeesMustFall protests
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has agreed, in principle, to employ its workers directly, and charges were dropped against 23 protesters. But at Wits, students and reporters were intimidated by protesters. Here are reports of today's protest activities from Cape Town, East London and Johannesburg.
GroundUp staff
News | 28 October 2015
Angry Masiphumelele residents to march on magistrates’ court
An uneasy calm has returned to Masiphumelele, but residents say they are preparing further protests on Friday, when a community leader charged with murder is due to appear in court.
GroundUp Staff and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 28 October 2015
Nyanga policing: Will promises be kept this time?
In October 2012, then Western Cape police commissioner, Lieutenant General Arno Lamoer, promised that a new satellite police station would be opened in Nyanga. Three years later, the promise has not yet been kept. Nor is it clear what steps have been taken to address a multitude of problems raised by a parliamentary committee a year ago.
GroundUp staff and Tariro Washinyira
News | 28 October 2015
Universities closed and exams postponed
Exams and classes have been postponed indefinitely in a number of universities, as student protests continued. The main focus of demonstrations is shifting to the issue of outsourced workers at tertiary institutions. Differences among students about how to proceed have come to the fore. At some institutions accusations and counter-accusations of intimidation were made between students representing opposing views.
GroundUp Staff
News | 26 October 2015
Masiphumelele residents angered by arrest of community leader
While the student demonstrations were taking place, the sporadic protests that have been taking place in Masiphumelele resumed in the early hours of Friday morning after a community leader was arrested.
GroundUp Staff
News | 26 October 2015
As Zuma agrees to no fee increase, police and students clash in Pretoria and Cape Town
From Pretoria to East London, from Cape Town to Stellenbosch, and even in London, students and their supporters demanded a zero percent increase to fees. But while most of the protests were peaceful, at UWC and Pretoria protesters and police clashed.
GroundUp Staff
News | 23 October 2015
We are putting our bodies on the line, say students at Ashley Kriel Memorial
Students will shut down universities until there is agreement on a 0% fee increase next year, representatives of student organisations said in Cape Town last night.
GroundUp staff
News | 23 October 2015
Masiphumelele: no way in or out
Clashes between police and residents have once again erupted in Masiphumelele.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 23 October 2015