Last week we published the story of the Sibhozo brothers. Many readers asked how they could help. Here is how.
GroundUp Staff
News | 30 April 2015
Cosatuâs biggest union, Numsa with 340,000 members, has been expelled from the federation. Half of Cosatuâs affiliates have allied themselves with Numsa and are operating outside Cosatuâs fold. But does the crisis in Cosatu matter? Does it make any difference to class struggle in defending and promoting working class interests?
Martin Jansen
Opinion | 30 April 2015
Readers of a GroundUp story about a Khayelitsha crèche that was robbed last month have responded generously by donating over R10,000 to the facility.
Barbara Maregele
News | 30 April 2015
Congolese refugee Sebastien Bazolo, 50, gave up his Durban job to flee back to Cape Town when xenophobia broke out in KwaZulu Natal.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 30 April 2015
Tomorrow, May 1, South Africa celebrates Workersâ Day. In the second of three articles, Leonard Gentle analyses the recent history of the labour movement in South Africa.
Leonard Gentle
Opinion | 30 April 2015
For over five years, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town has called for expanding access to safe and clean sanitation facilities in Khayelitsha and other townships in the city. Despite the overwhelming need for such services, the municipal government has yet to fulfill its duties to provide them at the requisite scale.
Gregg Gonsalves, Edward Kaplan and David Paltiel
Opinion | 29 April 2015
More than 800 hundred students gathered today at Ngwenyathi High School in Gwiqi village outside Mdantsane to mourn 13 year old Lutho Felepu who died running for a school bus.
Pharie Sefali
News | 29 April 2015
Last Thursday the Social Justice Coalition handed over 500 submissions, written by Khayelitsha residents, on the municipal budget to the City of Cape Town. GroundUp examined a sample of them to find out what residents are asking for.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 29 April 2015
On Friday 1 May South Africa will celebrate Workersâ Day. In the first of three articles on the current state of the labour movement, Leonard Gentle explains the history of this holiday.
Leonard Gentle
Opinion | 29 April 2015
A 32-year-old Burundian refugee, Furaha (not her real name) has been waiting since 2008 for her refugee identity document.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 29 April 2015
About 40 Mfuleni parents closed down the New Parliament Street Primary School on Tuesday, demanding that the principal leave the school and withdraw their children.
Nombulelo Damba
News | 29 April 2015
Four men have been charged with robbing two Ethiopian nationals in Pietermaritzburg.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 28 April 2015
In the winter of 2014 I interviewed six young men who lived on the streets of Cape Townâs Central Business District.
David Cowan
Opinion | 28 April 2015
Old Mutual has not kept a promise to build more than 500 low cost houses and a shopping centre in Khayelitsha, though this was a condition of a 2008 deal with the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 April 2015
Rosina Cloete claims that her husband, 50 year old Colin Cloete, was killed by an Ashton farmer while picking tomatoes and is determined to make sure justice is done.
Barbara Maregele
News | 28 April 2015
Faced with what appeared to be a veritable swamp of ideology at a âsocialist movementâ conference in Boksburg last week, the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) has embarked on the process of creating a âMarxist, Leninist, revolutionary working classâ political party. However, Numsa also facilitated the Boksburg conference, where representatives from 11 political groups or parties and a number of trade unionists and individuals made up the approximately 150 attendees.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 27 April 2015