Human Rights
Residents march for essential services
The City of Cape Town has been given 14 working days to respond to a memorandum of demands from the residents of Marikana, Rolihlahla Park and Klipfontein informal settlements.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 24 October 2014
Joe Slovo housing spat continues
Joe Slovo residents have accused Human Settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela of changing the criteria for housing allocation at the last minute in order to deny them access to new houses. But Madikizela says even “approved” subsidy beneficiaries should not expect automatic allocation of houses.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 23 October 2014
Social audits and the right to sanitation
Social audits are a valuable tool in implementing socio-economic rights, which is why the response by the City of Cape Town to the social audit of janitorial services in Khayelitsha is disturbing, writes Sandra Liebenberg.
Sandra Liebenberg
Opinion | 22 October 2014
Ebola: Journey to a quarantined village
In her latest article from the frontline of the Ebola epidemic, Kathryn Stinson looks for answers in a quarantined village in Sierra Leone.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 21 October 2014
Lwandle residents to SANRAL: where are our possessions?
Lwandle residents who have been rehoused after being evicted from SA National Roads Agency land in June complain that their possessions have been lost or damaged.
Pharie Sefali
News | 21 October 2014
Getting health care to sex workers in Cape Town
Leigh Davids was born a boy, but when she was five, she realised she wanted to be a girl.
Katy Scott and GroundUp Staff
News | 20 October 2014
Tackling rape in Khayelitsha
Between two and three rapes are reported every day to a single centre in Khayelitsha. And the numbers will probably rise at the end of the year.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 20 October 2014
Week in activism
This week we look at Greenpeace’s call on government to make Eskom comply with pollution laws, a report prepared for Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and a call for the Department of Home Affairs to recognise transgender rights.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 17 October 2014
Marking “Black Wednesday”: how to ensure media freedom
Sunday October 19 marks the commemoration of ‘Black Wednesday’, the day in 1977 that the apartheid government banned a range of publications sympathetic to the Black Consciousness Movement, and arrested a group of journalists and editors.
Mark Weinberg
Opinion | 17 October 2014