Human Rights
Gay and lesbian activists call for “racist” Cape Town Pride to be more inclusive
For 25-year-old, Aphiwe Mikana from Gugulethu, raising awareness about what it means to be lesbian is more than brightly coloured floats or a day of dancing through city streets.
Barbara Maregele
News | 2 March 2015
West Papua’s “Cry for help, Cry for Freedom”
On 17 February Equal Education hosted a talk by Benny Wenda of the Free West Papua Campaign at the Wits School of Education. He is in South Africa to spread awareness about the West Papuan fight against Indonesian colonialism and gross human rights abuses of the West Papuan people. He said he was also here to "learn how [South African] leaders fought against apartheid, for justice and against [racial] discrimination."
Joshua Maserow
Opinion | 25 February 2015
Child rape case - how poor families struggle for justice
A last minute intervention by community leaders from Siqalo settlement, in Mitchells Plain, has prevented an accused child rapist from being released without charge.
Daneel Knoetze
Feature | 24 February 2015
“Consumers in debt should ask for help” - Flemix Advocate
Consumers who are struggling to repay their loans should take the first step and ask for help, advocate Piet Louw SC told the court on Monday.
Barbara Maregele
News | 24 February 2015
“I loved my job,” says man dismissed by Independent Media
Bongani Peterson Fani says he only knows one thing that he does very well and that is delivering newspapers. Now that he is suddenly out of a job, he doesn't know where to begin looking for work.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 24 February 2015
Flemix advocate: poor should be free to make bad deals
The group of consumers who are hoping to have their emolument attachment orders (EAO) declared invalid had the freedom to choose and “to make a bad deal,” Advocate Piet Louw SC told the court on Thursday.
Barbara Maregele
News | 20 February 2015
ANC calls for “deregistration of TAC”
The ANC Youth League Free State has called for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to be deregistered. This follows TAC's "Fire Benny" campaign, which calls for the dismissal of the province's Health MEC Benny Malakoane.
Nathan Geffen and GroundUp Staff
News | 19 February 2015
Report Flemix legal team to the law society says advocate Anton Katz
A group of creditors used “trickery” to have emolument attachment orders served on unsuspecting consumers, advocate Anton Katz told the Western Cape High court yesterday.
Barbara Maregele
News | 17 February 2015
Corruption busting vs defamation in Lowveld court case
A well-known Limpopo businessman is suing the editor of a small Lowveld newspaper, Kruger2Canyon, for R500 000 in a defamation case described by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) as having “elements of intimidation and censorship by individuals with significant power”.
Pharie Sefali
Feature | 13 February 2015