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 âapprovedâ subsidy beneficiaries should not expect automatic allocation of houses.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 23 October 2014
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
In her latest article from the frontline of the Ebola epidemic, Kathryn Stinson âlooks for answers in a quarantined village in Sierra Leone.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 21 October 2014
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
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
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
This week we look at Greenpeaceâs call on government to make Eskom comply with pollution laws, a report prepared for Parliamentâs Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and a call for the Department of Home Affairs to recognise transgender rights.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 17 October 2014
Sunday October 19 marks the commemoration of âBlack Wednesdayâ, 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
Hangberg residents demonstrated at the Wynberg Magistrateâs Court on Thursday in support of Santonio Jonkers who made his second appearance in court.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 17 October 2014
One in four South Africans suffers from hunger on a regular basis, according to an Oxfam report released ahead of World Food Day, October 16.
Joyce Xi
News | 16 October 2014
Tightening border controls is not the way to prevent an outbreak of Ebola in South Africa, writes Nathan Geffen.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 16 October 2014
A new law is intended to make it easier for poor people to get decent legal representation. But there is much to be done to make it work, writes Liat Davis.
Liat Davis
Opinion | 13 October 2014
âSo just think of the one who is about to die, trapped behind hundreds of walls sizzling with heat, while at the same time, there are all those people, on the telephone or in cafes âŚâ - The Plague by Albert Camus.
Kathryn Stinson
Opinion | 13 October 2014
Every day, hundreds of Zimbabweans cross the Beit Bridge border across the Limpopo River into South Africa - some of them illegally. GroundUp reporter Tariro Washinyira joined them.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 13 October 2014
The man assaulted by police at his home in Hangberg last week is preparing to bring a civil claim against the police. Meanwhile, Hout Bayâs police commissioner has said that neither he nor his staff knew of the covert operation by the National Intervention Unit.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 10 October 2014
Emotions ran high in the Cape Town Magistratesâ Court on Wednesday as Social Justice Coalitionâs(SJC) general secretary, Phumeza Mlungwana, was cross-examined about last yearâs protest on the steps of the Cape Town Civic Centre.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 October 2014