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Court orders access to Stellenbosch’s deadly initiation school
Seven boys were admitted to Stellenbosch Hospital on the evenings of 25 and 26 November. Two were dead on arrival. One had sjambok marks on his body. They were about 20 years old. They were the victims of an initiation school.
Jonathan Dockney
News | 9 January 2014
School marked for closure gets it right
Peak View Secondary School in Bridgetown, Athlone was one of 27 schools marked for closure by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). Nearly two years later Peak View's matric results are top in its district.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 8 January 2014
Cape Times demo: plot thickens
It now appears that it was the fairly recently ordained pastor and political changeling, Wesley Douglas, who was one of the organisers of the group that gatecrashed a Right to Know (R2K) protest in Cape Town yesterday.
Terry Bell
News | 18 December 2013
Goons attempt to disrupt protest for press freedom
The saga of the Cape Times and South Africa’s Independent Newspapers (INL) group plumbed new depths of farce this afternoon (December 17) when a rent-a-crowd arrived in the city to support the putative new owner, Iqbal Survé.
Terry Bell
News | 17 December 2013
Week in political activism
This week we have reports from Lawyers for Human Rights about refugees being prevented from informal trading, and SERI who successfully represented Johannesburg's informal traders at the Constitutional Court.
Compiled by Brent Meersman
News | 12 December 2013
Zimbabwean kids detained after being smuggled into SA
The parents and relatives of six Zimbabwean children and five adults have found themselves helpless after malaichas (their smugglers) were arrested for human trafficking.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 11 December 2013
Fears of surge in Manenberg gang violence
Some Manenberg residents are worried that gang violence has started again in their area, with two people allegedly shot and killed on Saturday.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 December 2013
Improvement in Khayelitsha street lights
On the evening of 2 December 2013, Groundup staff visited Lansdowne Road in Khayelitsha to assess the state of street lights in the area. We counted 29 lights that were not functional. Overall, it appears that the state of street lights has improved since our last report on the issue in August 2013.
Jonathan Dockney
News | 11 December 2013