When Zandisile Khobeni (61) received a letter showing that his housing subsidy application had been approved in 2011, he was over the moon with joy. He didn't know that four years later he would still be waiting for a house, even as the other people in his street received their RDP houses.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 13 August 2015
The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) have called for the resignation or dismissal of national police commissioner Riah Phiyega, saying she has failed the people of Khayelitsha and poor people in South Africa as a whole.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 12 August 2015
Residents in Khayelitsha came out in their numbers at the weekend to celebrate the donation of a wheelchair and food parcel to a father and daughter who have epilepsy.
Pharie Sefali
News | 12 August 2015
The National Credit Regulator has referred financial company Moneyline to the National Consumer Tribunal for reckless lending to recipients of child grants.
Pharie Sefali
News | 12 August 2015
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has promised to register all Dunoon students who are yet to be placed in schools by tomorrow (Wednesday, 12 August).
Barbara Maregele
News | 11 August 2015
“I was walking at 5am to catch a taxi to go to work. Three people with their faces covered surrounded me and put me in the middle,” says Robert Makhoza, a resident of Masiphumelele.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 11 August 2015
Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega has “denied, disputed or redirected to the [Western Cape Provincial Government and City of Cape Town]” every recommendation of the O’Regan Commission of Inquiry into allegations of police inefficiency in Khayelitsha.
GroundUp Staff and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 7 August 2015
About 100 people gathered in front of parliament today to say “enough is enough” to government corruption as the deadline is reached for the submission by the parliamentary ad hoc committee on Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko’s report which said that President Jacob Zuma does not have to pay back the money he used for security upgrades to his Nkandla home.
Siphesihle Matyila and Brady Nevins
News | 7 August 2015