Former PRASA Rail CEO back in the dock for fraud
Mthuthuzeli Swartz, who is also accused of stealing railway lines and sleepers, attacks #UniteBehind and makes allegations against his former colleagues
By Joseph Chirume and GroundUp Staff
News | 28 February 2019
Education department is “showing us the middle finger”
Parents protest about the dilapidated state of three Uitenhage schools
Brief | 22 February 2019
Reconsidering South Africa’s approach to waste pickers
Waste pickers must be integrated into the formal waste management sector, says researcher
News | 22 February 2019
Eastern Cape residents must make way for taxi rank
Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved
Brief | 22 February 2019
School children block road to Alice
Five weeks into the school year and some classes have not started at Kuyasa Senior Secondary
Brief | 21 February 2019
1,000 families move onto vacant land as mayor freezes evictions
Residents name settlement “Bobani Village” after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor
Brief | 20 February 2019
“I want all my rapists to be arrested”
Rape survivor says the police have failed her time and again
News | 20 February 2019
Concern over high number of vigilante killings in PE
At least 13 people killed in past four months
Brief | 19 February 2019
Buffalo City mum on its shoddy RDP houses
Residents say they occupied the poorly built, incomplete houses after they had stood empty for six months
News | 15 February 2019