Fridges, stoves, furniture, televisions and microwaves are just some of the goods that residents claim are taken or damaged during evictions. Shack building materials are taken too. But what exactly happens to these goods once they are taken away? And what does the law say?
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 22 May 2015
Vuyo Sontsonga used to play golf between two roads, the N2 and Borcherds Quarry, nearly everyday. But now his dream of golf club membership has been realised.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 21 May 2015
It's all smiles and happiness as five men and women go about their work at the Bambanani Food Garden. Project manager Theresa Falatsa explains that it is passion that drives them.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 19 May 2015
Masiphumelele High School students who have been walking and hitchhiking 15 kilometres to get to school will soon have their own transport.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 14 May 2015
After numerous organisations wrote to the Department of Correctional Services, raising their concerns about the bad conditions in the awaiting trial section of Pollsmoor prison, GroundUp exclusively spoke to a detainee in that section, who says nothing has changed.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 7 May 2015
Last Thursday the Social Justice Coalition handed over 500 submissions, written by Khayelitsha residents, on the municipal budget to the City of Cape Town. GroundUp examined a sample of them to find out what residents are asking for.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 29 April 2015
Old Mutual has not kept a promise to build more than 500 low cost houses and a shopping centre in Khayelitsha, though this was a condition of a 2008 deal with the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 April 2015
About 150 Social Justice Coalition (SJC) members, supported by Ndifuna Ukwazi, formed a queue behind a toilet outside the Civic Centre and chanted struggle songs on Thursday, as they waited for their individual submissions on the City of Cape Town's draft budget for the 2015/2016 financial year to be collected.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 23 April 2015
Every day between 3pm and 7pm, at the traffic lights on the corner of Buitengracht Street and Buitensingel in the Cape Town city centre, you’re likely to see a man with a bunch of orange strelitzia flowers.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 22 April 2015
After having half his salary deducted every month for over a year to pay for furniture which he did not buy, a Nyanga man has now been refunded.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 April 2015
Walking through the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in Bridgetown, Athlone, is like walking through a hospital for humans - bare walls, corridors, operating rooms. Except, that is, for the barking and for the smell of dogs.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 9 April 2015
Excitement and frustration were evident outside Parliament when students and Equal Education (EE) members slept overnight on the pavement in protest at the delayed release of the provincial implementation plans for Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 2 April 2015
Rubusana Avenue, Jungle Walk and Washington Street, in Langa, were packed on Sunday as scores of people came out to participate in the Open Streets project.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 30 March 2015
There are protests outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court this morning, as a trial of health workers resumes amidst widespread dissatisfaction with the Free State health system and MEC Benny Malakoane.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 30 March 2015
Informal settlement residents say they are always told by law enforcement and the Anti Land Invasion Unit that if they want to extend or renovate their shacks, they need to obtain a permit from the City of Cape Town. But what exactly is this permit and how does it work?
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 25 March 2015
All MPs should get themselves tested for TB, the Treatment Action Campaign says.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 24 March 2015