News
Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing
Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course
By Musa Binda and GroundUp Staff
News | 21 March 2019
Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers
“I always give them two litres of paraffin for burning tyres during protests”
News | 21 March 2019
Cape Flats residents protest for houses
Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them
News | 20 March 2019
Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers
City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report
News | 20 March 2019
Names drawn from a bucket for KZN roads work
Residents demanded fair allocation of work on Newcastle contract
News | 20 March 2019
Fix our roads, demand Pietermaritzburg residents
Taxi operators and bus drivers join residents in closing roads
News | 19 March 2019
Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive
“The City will never help us until we protest.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 March 2019
Masiphumelele shack dwellers threaten to occupy land if City doesn’t give dates for new houses
Plato blames De Lille for making promises to community. De Lille says: “He’s talking nonsense.”
By Ella Ndongeni and GroundUp Staff
News | 18 March 2019
Australian mining manager drops defamation claims against journalist
“I have always prided myself in writing objective and truthful articles” says Tossie Beukes
By John Yeld
News | 18 March 2019