News | GroundUp

Trains now run to Khayelitsha, but the Central Line is still not fully operational

Metrorail says work on remaining stations was delayed by rains

By Sandiso Phaliso

News | 19 August 2024

PRASA’s hiring and firing of CEO has cost R15-million and counting

Zolani Matthews has been given the boot again, this time for “operational reasons”

By Tania Broughton

News | 17 August 2024

Fired security guards have been sleeping outside health department in Johannesburg for four months

They say they are owed money and want the department to intervene with their former employers

By Silver Sibiya

News | 16 August 2024

Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets

City is offering “Safe Space” shelters but some people don’t want to go there

Text by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 16 August 2024

Protesting residents shot outside KZN ward councillor’s house

Injured protestor said he was shot by one of councillor’s bodyguards

By Joseph Bracken

News | 16 August 2024

Man suspected of raping a disabled child is at large after police bungle arrest

Mother says Elliot police have failed her

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 16 August 2024

Stop new mining on West Coast, say fishers

“We depend on the ocean”

By Liezl Human

News | 16 August 2024

Homeless people removed from Cape Town’s city centre

“We want everybody to have dignified accommodation,” says ward councillor

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 15 August 2024

Dodgy multi-million rand Rio Olympics grant under investigation

Here are the names of the officials with whom the Lottery will no longer do business

By Raymond Joseph

News | 15 August 2024

SA’s ‘rock libraries’ gain world acclaim

UNESCO World Heritage Site status granted to three rock shelters

By John Yeld

News | 15 August 2024

In sickness and in health: What can workers expect from their employer if they are too sick to work?

CCMA finds dismissal of cancer survivor lawful

By Tania Broughton and GroundUp Staff

News | 14 August 2024

Father unable to register his son because he is not the mother

Despite DNA tests, Home Affairs refused to issue birth certificate to single dad’s son

By Phumeza Halonisi

News | 14 August 2024

Soweto property owners ask court to send Johannesburg officials to jail

They argue that the City failed to comply with two court orders

By Tania Broughton

News | 13 August 2024

Five months after police drive into woman, breaking her pelvis, SAPS probe is still incomplete

Nolwazi Tokhwe says her life has dramatically changed

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 13 August 2024

Rail theft accused using “Stalingrad tactics”, court hears

Decision on the High Court review brought by Syed Mohiudeen postponed

By Steve Kretzmann and Joseph Chirume

News | 12 August 2024

Eight years and counting - sewage spills into Butterworth river

Municipality blames illegal connections for pump station failure

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 12 August 2024