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Durban mayor urged to investigate assaults on homeless people
People we spoke to describe being beaten with sjamboks by Ensure Security’s masked guards. The company denies this.
News | 18 December 2025
Thousands of families live on railway reserves without water, electricity or rubbish collection
People have occupied the railway line between Langa and Bonteheuwel train stations since 2019 and at old Philippi depot since 2020
News | 18 December 2025
After years of sewage flooding their land, Joburg residents start rates revolt
Collapsing sewer line in Carlswald Valley has soaked properties with sewage for 20 years
News | 17 December 2025
Free State residents without water while municipal officials bicker
Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality will close down its failing water supply entity
By Tladi Moloi and Sean Christie
News | 16 December 2025
Solution to Dunoon’s railway occupation foiled
People living on Transnet land were meant to be relocated in 2013. But the plan stalled when more people moved onto the railway tracks.
News | 16 December 2025
SAPS is drowning in unsolved dockets
There were 1.9-million unsolved cases by the end of the 2024 financial year
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.
News | 12 December 2025
Broken promises: Sarah Baartman Centre is a case study in government failure
Hundreds of millions spent and a decade behind schedule
News | 11 December 2025
Living on R2,320 a month: Here’s how a pensioner spends her grant
“Sometimes by the 15th of the month, the groceries are all done,” says 61-year-old Noah Libbie
News | 11 December 2025
Botched permits spoil start to crayfish season
West Coast small-scale fishers demand answers from fisheries department
By Liezl Human
News | 11 December 2025