Articles for GroundUp Staff

Covid-19: Our grimmest day yet

Minister reports 844 confirmed deaths. MRC reports worst week yet.

Health workers demand vaccine rollout

Thousands sign letter calling for Department of Health to act urgently

2020 in pictures: a year of living dangerously

Covid-19, evictions, fires and an elephant: GroundUp’s photos of the year

Late judgments: Is the Cape High Court doing better?

Something troubling has shaken our confidence in the data

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Can you guess the order these photos were taken?

An expensive troubled bridge over water

Success against Covid-19: Temporary Cape Town hospital closes

“We’ve got to now save jobs and stop hunger and unemployment,” says Premier Alan Winde

Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 denialists

As deaths surge, Furnworld openly breaks vital regulations

GroundUp wins lottery court battle

Attempt to force us to stop publishing details of grants abandoned

Confusion over school resumption

Conflicting messages sent to teachers, parents and learners

Covid-19: Groote Schuur on the brink

Hospital manager implores doctors to show up for duty

Cape civic associations oppose by-law amendments

“The proposed amendments limits the constitutional rights to dignity, freedom of movement, privacy, equality and freedom”

Covid-19: We asked government and experts to explain the controversial disaster regulations

We got no response from government, but most experts are scathing

Huge delays in Covid-19 test results

Doctors express concern that results are so late they are not clinically useful

Covid-19: A view from the townships

GroundUp’s reporters describe what they see