News | GroundUp

The Education Minister promised all schools would have a library by 29 November - but there’s no chance that deadline will be met

Three quarters of public schools still don’t have libraries, in spite of a 2013 promise

By Sonia A. Rao

News | 21 September 2023

Protest at Parliament goes ahead after last-minute deal with City of Cape Town

Activist organisation #UniteBehind wants MPs to fire former PRASA chair Sfiso Buthelezi

By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ella Morrison

News | 20 September 2023

NSFAS and Blade Nzimande snub Parliament hearing on student funding failures

The portfolio committee will issue a summons if NSFAS and the minister fail to attend the next meeting

By Marecia Damons

News | 20 September 2023

Swellendam community centre burnt down in electricity protest

Police and protesters exchange rubber bullets and stones

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 20 September 2023

Family demands answers after teen’s body disappears from state morgue

Department and police fail to answer questions because they are still investigating three years later

By Warren Mabona

News | 20 September 2023

Mining department refuses West Coast prospecting bid

Government turned down Limpopo-based Nekwana Trading Enterprise’s application because of shortcomings in basic impact assessment

By John Yeld

News | 19 September 2023

Call for Johannesburg to turn “dark buildings” into decent housing for poor people

Housing collective plans march in city next month to demand housing for the poor

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 18 September 2023

CPUT agrees to increase payment to private residence after students locked out

This is despite the owner of 210 Long Street not meeting all NSFAS requirements of a fully accredited accommodation.

By Qaqamba Falithenjwa

News | 18 September 2023

Makhanda households fed up with living in a sewage nightmare

Residents of Hooggenoeg and Scotts Farm say the sewer system has been dysfunctional for over a decade

By Lucas Nowicki

News | 18 September 2023

Lottery official’s bank accounts frozen because of suspicious payments

R32-million paid by hundreds of grassroots organisations into accounts of KZN NLC official and his wife

By Raymond Joseph and Ella Morrison

News | 15 September 2023

Social housing in Woodstock: City wins heritage hearing

Woodstock residents intend to appeal, saying they support social housing but some green space needed

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 15 September 2023

Families displaced by World Cup occupy RDP houses in Durban

Fed up Isipingo transit camp residents say they are the rightful beneficiaries of houses in Kanku Road

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 15 September 2023

Silicosis: the astonishing story of the driller from Lesotho

Family receives R340,000 payout after death of miner who suffered from silicosis

News | 15 September 2023

Postbank board axed over unlawful contracts

Over 600,000 beneficiaries were affected by last week’s system failure, Ministers confirm

By Daniel Steyn, Qaqamba Falithenjwa and Ella Morrison

News | 14 September 2023

Officer testifies why he shot homeless man

“I believed they were going to injure me, take my gun and shoot me”

By Marecia Damons

News | 14 September 2023

Here’s what caused the social grant payment “glitch”

Postbank’s legal dispute with “payment switch” software provider sheds light on ongoing technical troubles

By Daniel Steyn

News | 14 September 2023