Human Rights
Over 7,000 people live on the streets of Cape Town
More than 7,000 people are homeless in Cape Town and a large percentage of them are male. This is according to the City of Cape Town's Social Development and Early Childhood Development Directorate's survey.
Bernard Chiguvare and Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 6 August 2015
Trucking company fires unionised employees
Six Zimbabwean men have accused a Stikland trucking company of dismissing them for having joined the Motor Transport Workers’ Union of South Africa (MTWU). They accuse the company of exploitation and ill treatment, and claim they are owed pay.
Tariro Washinyira
Feature | 6 August 2015
The new racism? A review of Gerhard Mare’s Declassified ,¨
Ideological positions that analyse conflict in South Africa in terms of race are not in the interests of disadvantaged people, argues Jeff Rudin in this review of a new book by Gerhard Mare.
Jeff Rudin
News | 6 August 2015
“Sex work should not cost me my life”
On a wet and windy Tuesday morning on the corner of Oak and Main roads in Kenilworth, people gathered to sing and dance on the pavement, many in bright orange T-shirts with the words, 'Sex work should not cost me my life' written across their fronts.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 5 August 2015
Lost belongings after evictions: a chaotic blame game
A year after their eviction from land owned by the SA National Roads Agency (SANRAL), some Lwandle residents say their possessions were never returned to them. But SANRAL says the goods were placed under the control of a community leader, and the agency is not to blame if residents did not get their belongings back.
GroundUp staff
News | 31 July 2015
Gays and sin: In limited defence of Zizipho Pae
In response to the United States Supreme Court’s decision recognising gay marriage, UCT Student Representative Council (SRC) vice-president Zizipho Pae wrote on her Facebook page on 28 June, “We are institutionalizing and normalizing sin! Sin. May God have mercy on us...”. Pae has subsequently continued to defend her statement.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 30 July 2015
Cape Town urged to join march against corruption
Speakers at a meeting in Salt River last night urged Capetonians to join the march against corruption on 19 August in the city.
Pharie Sefali
News | 29 July 2015
Separation of powers: Have the courts crossed the line?
This is an abridged version of the speech Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke delivered at the University of the Western Cape on Friday, 17 July.
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Opinion | 24 July 2015
SASSA beneficiaries still struggling with illegal deductions
Diena Twala, a 71-year-old grandmother from Mbekweni says illegal deductions for airtime and electricity from her South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) account are still ongoing despite countless attempts to have it stopped.
Barbara Maregele
News | 22 July 2015