News | GroundUp

City of Cape Town backtracks on housing agreement with Mfuleni backyarders

New housing development will not only be for the backyarders, says the City

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 22 May 2024

“You have no idea how difficult it is to get a coffin inside the camp”

After 13 years in a “transit camp”, Ntuzuma flood victims are afraid they’ll die there

By Nokulunga Majola

News | 22 May 2024

Deadline for comment on City of Cape Town’s new homeless strategy

Public comment closes Wednesday

By GroundUp Staff and Matthew Hirsch

News | 21 May 2024

State neglect of young children leads to lifelong damage

Only about one in four early learning programmes get subsidies, and that funding is only R17 per child per day and has not increased since 2019

By Liz McGregor

News | 21 May 2024

Last four traders at Salt River Market to fight their eviction

Site to be used for 1,000 affordable housing units

Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 21 May 2024

“Silent disease” outed at African Hepatitis Convention

Many South Africans with hepatitis go undiagnosed

By Liezl Human

News | 20 May 2024

Rainbow flags fill the streets of Nyanga and Gugulethu

In its 11th year, Khumbulani Pride renewed calls for justice for victims of hate crime

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 20 May 2024

Not enough places in children’s centres after budget cuts

Children in KZN are being placed in foster care instead of care centres

By Joseph Bracken

News | 20 May 2024

Hundreds picket outside Gauteng social development offices

Protest highlights the catastrophic mess the department has made of funding for non-profit organisations

By Masego Mafata

News | 17 May 2024

Ratepayers block plans to upgrade informal settlement in eThekwini

There are more than 300 shacks in Havelock next to the formal suburb of Greenwood Park

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 17 May 2024

New police station finally opens in Khayelitsha, ending a nearly 20-year wait

Construction of a permanent station in Makhaza will start next year, says Bheki Cele

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 17 May 2024

PRASA has failed to fix East Rand train stations

From Boksburg to Springs, stations remain in ruins

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 17 May 2024

Premier steps in to resolve funding crisis at Gauteng social development department

Non-profit organisations starved of funds

By Daniel Steyn and Masego Mafata

News | 16 May 2024

Blow for Woodstock social housing plans

Tribunal overturns Heritage Western Cape decision to allow development at the Earl Street site

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 15 May 2024

The traffic department that hasn’t issued a ticket for years

“We used to have ticket books, but they were stolen” says a traffic officer in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Johnnie Isaac

News | 15 May 2024

Sewage pollutes KwaZulu-Natal’s popular south coast lagoons

None of the 19 sewage treatment plants managed by the Ugu District Municipality are properly treating sewage released into rivers and lagoons

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 15 May 2024