News | GroundUp

After widespread looting in Delmas, immigrant shopkeepers struggle to open

Many shops still closed after looting during community protests last month

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 1 March 2023

Parliament urged to investigate R54-million national orchestra

Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra CEO says it is not obliged to reveal details of operations and finances

By Daniel Steyn

News | 28 February 2023

Rubber bullets fired as over 2,000 people evicted from Nigel housing occupation

Lawyers for the occupiers have subsequently secured a stay of the eviction order in the Gauteng High Court

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 28 February 2023

R10-million wasted on unfinished Eastern Cape sports centre

Now Emalahleni Local Municipality is going to fork out another R14.5-million

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 28 February 2023

Equal Education made “constitutional alchemy” says lawyer who represented them

Jason Brickhill, director of litigation at SERI, remembers how Equal Education and the Legal Resources Centre built the school infrastructure norms and standards case

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 27 February 2023

MeerKAT: Why South Africa’s massive astronomy project matters

Amish Patel is a Signal Processing Engineer with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He gave the second Science for the People seminar.

By Daniel Steyn

News | 27 February 2023

Call for government to save Durban’s contaminated rivers

“Toxic” levels of E. coli will require national government intervention, say water activists

By Lucas Nowicki

News | 27 February 2023

Tribunal into Judge Makhubele’s conduct adjourned until May

#UniteBehind’s Zackie Achmat urges Judge Makhubele to publicise her legal costs “which are being carried by the public”

By Masego Mafata

News | 24 February 2023

Coffee Bay Flood: Man tells how he survived by grabbing tree

Eight confirmed dead. Search for two missing people continues.

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 24 February 2023