News | GroundUp

Leaked documents show how government wants to tackle unemployment

Presidency and National Treasury describe plans for our “employment first” future - and what social grants are acceptable to the government

By James Stent

News | 9 September 2022

Anger at civil society exclusion from Presidential summit

3,500 organisations have sent a letter to the presidency demanding an explanation

By Liezl Human

News | 8 September 2022

Fed up with poor service, hundreds march to Eskom office in Khayelitsha

Residents want workers to return to the local office and for Eskom to fix high mast lights, transformers and faulty street lights in the community.

By Vincent Lali

News | 8 September 2022

New library brings hope to Wolwerivier

Families in the tin settlement 30km from Cape Town have access to books at last

By Ashraf Hendricks

News | 8 September 2022

Leaked report sheds more light on the rot at Lottery-funded school

The National Lotteries Commission’s claims about how R28.3-million was spent to rebuild Vhafamadi Secondary School don’t stand up to scrutiny

By Anton van Zyl and Raymond Joseph

News | 8 September 2022

Trolley assistants at malls pay a “fee” to be allowed to collect tips from shoppers

Some pay up to R50 a day

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 7 September 2022

I earned more as a farmworker in South Africa than as a maths teacher in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Teachers Association says teachers have to leave classrooms immediately to exchange their salaries

By Joseph Chirume

News | 7 September 2022

Civil society criticises Gender Commission box-ticking exercise

Organisations say the period for public comment on selection of commissioners is inadequate

By Marecia Damons

News | 7 September 2022

New fishing quotas to be allocated

But only original applicants may apply for rights

By Liezl Human

News | 6 September 2022

City intensifies operations against unlicensed amaphela taxis

SANCO intervenes to try and end the unrest and impasse with law enforcement agencies

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe

News | 6 September 2022

Taxi drivers burn streets of Hout Bay

Amaphela are demanding that the City compensate them for loss of income since MyCiTi started operating

Text by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 5 September 2022

Protesters slam ninth postponement in murder case

“The investigating officer messed up and the state needs to take accountability” says Funeka Soldaat

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 5 September 2022

River Club construction carries on amidst court delays

Observatory Civic Association says development is violating a court interdict

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 5 September 2022

Seven arrested as taxi protest escalates in Cape Town

Nearly a dozen police vehicles, buses and cars have been torched during violent retaliation allegedly by amaphela drivers

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe

News | 2 September 2022

No light at the end of the tender for Eastern Cape villages

Millions have been spent on the Sivumela project and eight years later, hundreds of households are still without electricity

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 1 September 2022

Ethics committee urged to act against MPs over PRASA collapse

Formal complaint laid by #UniteBehind which wants six MPs expelled from Parliament

By James Stent

News | 31 August 2022