It was a cool morning when local school soccer teams took to the field to commemorate World Refugee Day, which took place the previous day on Wednesday 20 June 2012.
Veronica Washaya
News | 27 June 2012
Thandokhulu High School in Mowbray is a school serving children from townships despite being in a middle-class area. With fewer resources than the other schools in the neighbourhood, Thandokhulu is nevertheless starting to achieve high standards.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 27 June 2012
GroundUp interviewed Supersport United's exciting talent, 19-year-old striker, Jerry Mxabo.
Margo Fortune
News | 27 June 2012
A man who contracted tuberculosis (TB) while in prison is in a long-running court battle with the Department of Correctional Services.
GroundUp Staff
News | 20 June 2012
Dudley Lee was arrested in 1999 and spent the next four years in Pollsmoor Prison, while he was tried for fraud and other financial crimes. About 70 court appearances later, he was found not guilty. While in prison he became sick with TB.
GroundUp Staff
News | 20 June 2012
The street lights on Lansdowne in Khayelitsha have not worked for years. After noticing a long portion of Lansdowne Road without working street lights, I interviewed people who walk along the road.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 20 June 2012
A document called "Perils and Pitfalls – Migrants and Deportations in South Africa," recently released by People Against Suffering and Oppression, explains how the rights of refugees, children and black South Africans are infringed and abused.
By Tariro Washinyira
News | 20 June 2012
There have been many media reports of shortages of medicines to treat AIDS over the last few weeks. But the medicine shortages go beyond antiretrovirals and there are even shortages of vaccines.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 June 2012
A group of activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) ran the Comrades Marathon on Sunday 4 June.
Veronica Washaya and Janine Fortuin
News | 12 June 2012
Over this past week, the National Union of Metalworkers congress has again put both nationalisation and the Freedom Charter firmly onto the political agenda.
Terry Bell
News | 8 June 2012
Desmond Tutu HIV Centre ran a workshop on sex workers for health-care workers on Wednesday at Groote Schuur Hospital.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 7 June 2012
The spotlight was on gangsterism in the Western Cape again on Tuesday when community safety MEC Dan Plato and conflict resolution practitioner Irvin Kinnes held a public dialogue on the issue.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 7 June 2012
Western Cape Northern Line Metro Rail commuters found themselves in a transport commotion last week. Police were alerted on Thursday morning shortly before 7am of a possible bomb between Parow and Tygerberg Stations.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 June 2012
Many matters of national and regional importance have been neglected in the past two weeks, submerged beneath the fuss and furore caused by the charade surrounding the satirical Spear painting.
Terry Bell
News | 4 June 2012
People protesting over the lack of access to electricity put rocks across Lansdowne Road today, cutting the road off to traffic. This resulted in long queues at bus stations.
News | 4 June 2012
Patrons showed their talents at the Zula Sound Bar in Long Street on Wednesday evening.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 4 June 2012