Hardworking and dedicated, but these janitors in East London can go unpaid for weeks
Toilet cleaners also have to buy their own cleaning materials and chemicals and work without gloves or protective clothing
News | 4 March 2019
Picket against bad treatment at Lusikisiki clinic
The TAC held a protest at Xurana clinic which they say is losing patients in “droves”
Brief | 1 March 2019
Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay says hands off Uitenhage land occupation
Over 200 shacks erected in Khayelitsha with ward councillor’s support
News | 1 March 2019
PE residents want police station commander removed
Protesters allege corruption and incompetence at Motherwell SAPS
News | 1 March 2019
Tsomo’s mystery water tankers
Municipality says it provides a water tanker but residents say they’ve never seen one
News | 1 March 2019
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