Goma Call For Peace campaign launched at St George’s Cathedral
Religious leaders and civil society groups call for end to the war
By Kimberly Mutandiro and Nontobeko Mkhwanazi
Brief | 6 February 2025
Picket at Mining Indaba demands justice for Stilfontein miners
Activists called for reparations to be paid to the families of the miners who died
By Liezl Human
Brief | 5 February 2025
No end to long queues at SASSA Khayelitsha
Grant recipients and applicants must sleep over or arrive in the early hours if they hope to get served
Brief | 5 February 2025
Photo exhibition: Remembering the fishers of Kalk Bay
“The Sea is in our Blood” photo exhibition outside the Olympia Cafe
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 5 February 2025
Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque
Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”
News | 4 February 2025
West Coast beaches polluted by oil spill
Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy
By John Yeld
News | 3 February 2025
New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres
Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste
Photo Essay | 3 February 2025
D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site
Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre
News | 31 January 2025
Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts
Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping
News | 31 January 2025