Following several reports published on GroundUp on the broken street light problem in Khayelitsha, particularly along Lansdowne Road, several social justice organisations protested and the City repaired the lights. In the last two weeks we have checked the street lights. While most remain on, there are signs that the situation is getting worse.
Nokubonga Yawa and GroundUp Staff
News | 10 April 2013
Stories about science in the media are often misleading and over-hyped. In today's science column, Kerry Gordon discusses why.
Kerry Gordon
News | 10 April 2013
Patients with HIV in South African public clinics have to take at least three separate pills once and maybe twice daily. But in the private sector, as well as in the United States and Europe patients have for years been able to take their HIV treatment as one pill once a day.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 10 April 2013
Paul Kasonkomona, a Zambian human rights activist with many years’ experience, was arrested in Lusaka on Sunday for publically supporting the rights of Zambia’s sexual minorities. He was arrested shortly after appearing on an independent television channel, Muvi TV, where he spoke in favour of access to health care for sex workers, prisoners, and sexual minorities.
Jacques van Heerden
News | 10 April 2013
Telkom is being accused of dismissing 23 learner interns without pay. The matter is going to the CCMA.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 3 April 2013
This is the first of an occasional new feature science column from GroundUp. We hope these short articles will make science more popular and encourage learners to study science. Today's article by Kerry Gordon describes how in 2011, game players solved a difficult science problem.
Kerry Gordon
News | 3 April 2013
Civil society organisations led by the Treatment Action Campaign marched on 22 March to an event addressed by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at a school in Khayelitsha in anticipation of World Tuberculosis (TB) day.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 29 March 2013
When Premier Helen Zille was bitten by a rat last week, her spokesperson was quoted saying, “I know the City Bowl rats are mutant freaks of nature but if they’re starting to take nibbles out of people, we’re in trouble." However, as this story of a Khayelitsha baby bitten by a rat shows, in some parts of the City, rats are no laughing matter and rats "taking nibbles out of people" are not that unusual.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 27 March 2013
New season, new presenter, same time, same channel. Education and health television programme Siyayinqoba Beat-It! will air its first episode of season 8 next week Thursday on SABC 1 at 1:30pm.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 27 March 2013
On Saturday, Bafana Bafana beat Central African Republic 2-0 in their vital World Cup qualifier at the Cape Town stadium. We asked Capetonians for their views on the game.
Margo Fortune
News | 27 March 2013
Elias Dyasi, former SANCO chairperson of the Mxolisi Petani branch and security officer at a surgeory in Site C, was gunned down last week Monday. According to the police report he was gunned down by two different kinds of guns and the perpetrators made away with his security gun only and left behind his cell phone and wallet that still had R70.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 27 March 2013
Khayelitsha’s popular coffee shop, the Department of Coffee (DOC), was burgled in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 26 March 2013
"[W]henever we see that little white bastard called Jared Sacks we must beat the shit out of him ... " This was written by well-known journalist and black-consciousness writer, Andile Mngxitama, on his Facebook page.
Nathan Geffen
News | 25 March 2013
Last night Equal Education held a public hearing in Cape Town to address the Minister of Basic Education's draft document on the minimum norms and standards for schools. The organisation believes Minister Angie Motshekga's draft is unsatisfactory.
Fergus Turner
News | 21 March 2013
Andile Duvane was electrocuted on Wednesday 13 March while playing soccer with his friends. He stepped on open electrical wires outside Metrorail's substation at the RR section in Khayelitsha.
Mary-jane Matsolo
News | 20 March 2013