News | GroundUp

How to achieve a 100% matric pass rate in one of the country’s poorest areas

Independent no-fee school Bulungula College is the first in Elliotdale’s history to achieve 100% pass rate

By Mkhuseli Sizani and Daniel Steyn

News | 26 January 2023

Studying before dawn earns seven distinctions for star Joe Slovo Park learner

Learners at Sinenjongo High overcome tough living conditions and Covid disruptions to excel

By Peter Luhanga

News | 26 January 2023

President urged to sack PRASA’s board and hand over passenger rail

Activist group #UniteBehind sets mid-February deadline for demand to fix PRASA

By James Stent

News | 25 January 2023

Protesters close down municipal offices, demanding water

Matatiele households have been battling water problems for years

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 25 January 2023

Perlemoen farm gives hope to West Coast community

Doring Bay Abalone, 37% owned by the community, produces about 60 tonnes of abalone per year, mostly to legally export to China.

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 24 January 2023

School dropout crisis in Northern Cape municipality

Report finds that only half the learners who start primary school reach high school, and of these only 15% pass matric in the Joe Morolong Local Municipality

By Marecia Damons

News | 24 January 2023

Five years on, Marievale army base families still in limbo

The latest relocation plan has been rejected by some of the respondents

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 24 January 2023

Johannesburg informal settlements wait a week for water

Contracting issue has delayed supply to over 40 informal settlements, says Joburg Water

By Masego Mafata

News | 23 January 2023

City of Tshwane not coping with refuse removal, say residents

Refuse collection in Ga-Rankuwa is infrequent and illegal dumps are multiplying

By Chris Gilili

News | 23 January 2023

Murder at Mangaung Prison: Leaked report shows ‘Facebook rapist’ was dead before a fire broke out in his cell

Leaked documents show that Thabo Bester was already dead before a fire broke out in his cell

By Marecia Damons

News | 20 January 2023

Poo protest in Gqeberha

Nearly 600 households, sharing ten toilets in Govan Mbeki Village, say the facilities have not been cleaned since before Christmas

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 19 January 2023

Fire Gwede Mantashe, say activists

Civil society groups plan mass action against electricity tariff hike and blackouts

By Marecia Damons

News | 19 January 2023

Are police operations having a real impact on crime in Delft?

Community members and activists say there is a breakdown of trust in the police’s ability to deal with crime.

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 19 January 2023

Families desperately trying to keep Eastern Cape school alive

Built more than 70 years ago with mud bricks by villagers, Ixopo Junior Secondary School has been neglected by the education department

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 19 January 2023

Operation Dudula chases immigrants away from Joburg clinic

Patients told to get health care “in their own countries”

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 18 January 2023

Stocks of snake antivenom are dangerously low, experts warn

Doctors wait at least six months for orders of vital snake polyvalent antivenom

By Liezl Human

News | 18 January 2023