Articles for GroundUp Staff
Getting health care to sex workers in Cape Town
Leigh Davids was born a boy, but when she was five, she realised she wanted to be a girl.
Katy Scott and GroundUp Staff
News | 20 October 2014
Lonmin’s Bermuda Triangle
Platinum mining giant Lonmin could have found the money to meet rock drillers’ pay demands instead of shifting funds between subsidiaries, possibly to avoid tax.
GroundUp staff
News | 16 October 2014
Lonmin stops press conference on its finances
Cape Town-based think-tank Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), which was stopped by Lonmin from holding a press conference about the platinum company’s accounts, intends to hold the conference “very soon”.
GroundUp staff
News | 10 October 2014
Khayelitsha toilets: the battle for information
Information concerning contracts signed by local authorities should be much more freely available, says Social Justice Coalition spokesman Axolile Notywala.
GroundUp staff
News | 2 October 2014
Khayelitsha toilet audit finds “dire” results
One in four of the Khayelitsha public toilets, which are supposed to be cleaned by the City of Cape Town's janitorial services, is not working, a social audit by the Social Justice Coalition has found.
GroundUp staff
Feature | 1 October 2014
Adoption and race: we unpack the issues
Adoption of children across the the old apartheid categories is on the increase, according to the Department of Social Development. There were 936 such adoptions in the last three years. GroundUp unpacks some of the issues on what the department calls “trans-racial” adoption.
Thembela Ntongana and GroundUp staff
News | 29 September 2014
Public invited to attend the final Lwandle hearing
The commission of inquiry into the Lwandle evictions has invited members of the public to attend its final hearing in Cape Town on Friday.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 25 September 2014
What is UCT’s new admissions policy?
The University of Cape Town is changing its admissions policy to take into account disadvantage as well as race. The new policy is complex. We have tried here to explain it accurately and simply.
Katy Scott and GroundUp staff
Feature | 8 September 2014
In the footsteps of Dudley Lee: prisoners to sue government
Several prisoners intend suing the Department of Correctional Services because they contracted tuberculosis (TB) in prison.
GroundUp Staff
News | 28 August 2014