Stay off drugs says Maluleka
George Nyiko Maluleka is the 23-year old up-and-coming star mid-fielder for Supersport United.
Margo Fortune
News | 8 August 2012
An important victory for education rights
Mary Waters High School in Grahamstown has 1087 learners from poor families.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 6 August 2012
Parole furore raises the dialysis conundrum
The controversial medical parole of former top cop, Jackie Selebi, has once again thrown into stark relief questions about kidney disease and treatment, questions that have long disturbed the labour movement.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 2 August 2012
Helping Khayelitsha’s children escape gang violence
The youth of Khayelitsha have been infected with a terrible "disease of gang violence"--as ‘Big Guy’, a radio presenter from Radio Zibonele called it--that is destroying tomorrow’s leaders. It is not hardened gangsters who are involved but children, some as young as 13.
Axolile Notywala
Opinion | 1 August 2012
Gangsterism out of hand in Khayelitsha
Between Premier Helen Zille calling for the deployment of an army and some Cape Town gangs deciding to end the violence, Khayelitsha is singing a different tune with teenage gangsters taking the violence to a new level.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 August 2012
Rats and rubbish: Somafho Flats in Gugs
Rubbish piles, rats and no electricity. This is the site of Somafho, a block of flats in Gugulethu’s NY 121.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 August 2012
Message from a gangster
Every finish line is the beginning of a race. I’m on the finish line of my gangster life and at the beginning of whole new life.
Mzi
Opinion | 1 August 2012
Cape High Court rules closure of refugee centre was unreasonable and irrational
On Wednesday 25 July, Judge Dennis Davis of the Cape High Court ruled in favour of continued access to the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (CTRRO) for new asylum applicants.
Veronica Washaya
Brief | 1 August 2012
Playing United was a dream come true for Ajax star
GroundUp interviewed 23 year-old Ajax defender, Aidan Jenniker.
Margo Fortune
News | 1 August 2012