News | GroundUp

Hawker takes Checkers to court

She wants her R4,000 back

By Bernard Chiguvare and Anton van Zyl

News | 23 November 2023

Sex workers gather in Cape Town to push for decriminalisation

COSATU calls for sex workers to unionise

By Ashraf Hendricks

News | 22 November 2023

Aussie mining company “SLAPP suit” partly settled out of court

Six South African defendants have reached an agreement with Mineral Commodities Ltd

By John Yeld

News | 22 November 2023

New housing project in Simon’s Town leaves backyarders and tenants in limbo

Shacks are being demolished as families move from Redhill to new houses in Dido Valley

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 22 November 2023

Small farmers celebrate victory outside Cape High Court

Housing Development Agency agrees to drop eviction proceedings

By Liezl Human

News | 21 November 2023

The NPA, the former Lottery boss and the Rolls Royce

Alfred Nevhutanda sold the car just three months after he bought it for R6.3-million

By Raymond Joseph

News | 21 November 2023

Millions poured into Eastern Cape sportsground but it’s still unfinished

After seven years, the project is under investigation

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 21 November 2023

Mandela Park shacks petrol-bombed

This is the latest in a series of attacks on this group of land occupiers since August

By Vincent Lali

News | 21 November 2023

Farm worker family evicted, belongings dumped on the side of the road

“I am broken” says Jan Marthinus, in tears after his family was left homeless

By Marecia Damons

News | 20 November 2023

Gift of the Givers Gaza head “paid the ultimate sacrifice”

Memorial held for Ahmed Abbasi in St George’s Cathedral

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 20 November 2023

Sewage in the sea: City fails to meet Hout Bay permit conditions

The City of Cape Town’s own data shows it is releasing more sewage than is allowed

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 17 November 2023

Public works slammed for mismanagement of prime Cape Town property

A two-hectare property and heritage buildings have been left to ruin

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 17 November 2023

Teenager’s drowning highlights broken promises in Kliptown

Families living in crumbling houses near the river bank say Gauteng government promised to relocate them years ago

By Silver Sibiya

News | 17 November 2023

Spoekiesdorp families haunted by past evictions and uncertain future

“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”

Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 17 November 2023

“We are back”: Khulumani pensioners sleep outside Constitutional Court

They say they are owed apartheid reparations

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 16 November 2023

22 Gauteng schools built with asbestos still haven’t been replaced

Historic Kliptown Primary School is one of them

By Marvin Adams

News | 16 November 2023