News | GroundUp

Homes bulldozed in Roodepoort

City of Joburg says this is not an “eviction” but a “relocation”

By Silver Sibiya

News | 8 May 2025

We visited SASSA offices. Here’s what we found

People waiting in long queues told us their frustrations

By Marecia Damons and Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 7 May 2025

Gauteng welfare organisations worried about late payments

Department of Social Development is improving but problems remain

By Joseph Bracken

News | 7 May 2025

Chaos in Flagstaff as municipality demolishes homes ‘sold’ by chief

Municipality says property is earmarked for development

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana

News | 7 May 2025

Universal access to trains: Metrorail’s empty promises

New trains have spaces for wheelchairs but many stations and platforms are inaccessible

By Yaseen Bardien

News | 7 May 2025

How US funding cuts are forcing sex workers to share HIV medicines

Sex workers say they are devastated following the closure of US-funded clinics

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 6 May 2025

Families live in limbo on Cape Town’s railway lines

PRASA has been mum for months about relocation plans

By Sandiso Phaliso

News | 6 May 2025

Presumed guilty! Years in prison awaiting trial

Goodwood prison massively overcrowded, judge’s report finds

By Marecia Damons

News | 5 May 2025

Joburg traders claim they are harassed by City

Traders were recently forced to close shop

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 5 May 2025

US shuts down massive Lesotho development project

R6-billion American-funded Millennium Challenge Account is on the verge of collapse

By Sechaba Mokhethi

News | 30 April 2025

Families of miners trapped since November beg for help

Authorities say it is too dangerous to go down the Krugersdorp mine

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 30 April 2025

Flower farm keeps Constantia’s coloured heritage alive

Jaftha brothers help heal a history of land dispossession

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 30 April 2025

Langa families were moved to a “temporary” area in 2002. They are still there

Their living conditions are dire

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 29 April 2025

New report describes how coal pollution is harming Highveld

GroundWork says water contamination and health problems are prevalent in Mpumalanga

By Kimberly Mutandiro and Liezl Human

News | 25 April 2025

No identity eight years after submitting DNA evidence

Home Affairs incompetence leaves young woman stateless for decades

By Phumeza Halonisi

News | 25 April 2025

Five months without water in Komani

New water supply project should have been completed in 2018

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 25 April 2025