Teachers at a crèche in Khayelitsha were caught unaware when three armed men stormed into the shack and robbed them of their monthly wages on Thursday.
Barbara Maregele
News | 13 March 2015
At a Western Cape Refugee and Migrant Forum at Scalabrini Centre on Thursday, several civil society organisations agreed to establish a âxenophobic response task team and forumâ in response to the recent Philippi xenophobic violence.
Tariro Washinyira
Brief | 13 March 2015
On Thursday, a group of about ten women marched to parliament to protest against the delay by government to extend certain basic rights to domestic workers.
Bernard Chiguvare
Brief | 13 March 2015
Four months after KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunuâs high-profile announcement of a peace deal and R10-million security plan at the violence-torn Glebelands hostel in Umlazi, Durban, two more hostel residents have been murdered.
Pharie Sefali
News | 13 March 2015
Chumisa Fudumele was seven years old when a toilet fell on her, leaving her disabled. A year later, her parents are struggling to get her back into a school.
Zintle Swana
News | 12 March 2015
A Nyanga man has had more than R1,000 deducted from his salary every month since September 2013, to pay for furniture which he says he never bought.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 12 March 2015
Dozens of Grade 12 students were sent home on Tuesday from Qhayiya Secondary School in Khayelitsha because they were unable to pay a âvoluntary feeâ to the school.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 March 2015
On 6 March there was a violent stand-off between students from Philippi High School and the police in the Cape Town CBD. GroundUp reported this. Here is a statement issued by the students on the events of that day.
Philippi High School Students
Opinion | 11 March 2015
The parents of Mfuleni âtent schoolâ students say that they are still unhappy with the arrangements made to accommodate their children. Now, community leaders are threatening to âevictâ Bardale Primary Schoolâs principal, if more classroom space is not made available.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 11 March 2015
A group of 15 people who have been receiving disability grants for at least five years protested outside the Heideveld Community Day Centre on Monday after their latest applications were declined.
Barbara Maregele
News | 10 March 2015
The contract workers who clean portable toilets all day at the Borcherdâs Quarry Depot now have a canteen and a place to change.
Zintle Swana
News | 10 March 2015
Four years after President Jacob Zuma promised sanitary towels for poor women, there is no sign that his promise has been kept.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 10 March 2015
South Africans shouldnât hold their breath as polluters are let off the hook. Decisions of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) on Tuesday 24 February 2015 marked a disappointing setback in the battle for improved air quality in South Africa.
Nicole LĂśser
Opinion | 9 March 2015
A Mitchellâs Plain man has been making fake house sales in Delft, Mfuleni and Gugulethu, apparently scamming buyers out of tens of thousands of rands.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 9 March 2015
Infighting, bickering and the pursuit of power and patronage have largely paralysed Cosatu in recent years. That, broadly, is the view of the labour federationâs embattled general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi and of Jay Naidoo, Cosatuâs first general secretary.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 9 March 2015
In February the City of Cape Townâs Anti-Land Invasion Unit (ALIU) dismantled a familyâs shack in Mfuleni. This acrimonious incident raises important questions about how informal settlements are to be upgraded.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 9 March 2015