Local government
Informal vendors unhappy with City’s proposed trading plans
A 38-year-old fruit vendor in the city centre says it is not clear if he will be benefiting from the City of Cape Town’s proposed plan to allocate new trading bays.
Barbara Maregele
News | 2 July 2014
Anger as municipality forces small farmers to pay to use common land
Already hit by drought, small farmers in the Upington area will now have to pay fees to graze their animals on common land.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 29 May 2014
Hangberg: mixed reaction to new housing development
For the first time since a violent clash between residents and law enforcement in 2010, development of new housing is proceeding in Hangberg, Hout Bay. 142 new rental units are being built.
Barbara Maregele
News | 8 May 2014
Election special: ANC says it will win back the people’s “trust”
In the second of three interviews in the run-up to the May elections, Vuyiso Tyhalisisu, ANC secretary in the Cape Town metro, answers GroundUp's questions.
Pharie Sefali
News | 10 April 2014
//Khara Hais local municipality continues to ignore Auditor General
For two successive years //Khara Hais local municipality in Upington has had qualified audit reports. Now, at its most recent council meeting, the municipality approved irregular and unauthorized expenditure of R4 million incurred since November 2013.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 20 March 2014
Station Commander’s job comes under fire at the Khayelitsha Commission
Advocate Peter Hathorn has said his clients will recommend that Colonel Michael Reitz be removed from his post as the Lingelethu West Station Commander in Khayelitsha.
Adam Armstrong
News | 17 February 2014
Khayelitsha gangs can get worse warns researcher
Dr Kelly Gillespie, a social anthropology researcher based at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), warned the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into policing that the township’s gangs can change into something worse.
Adam Armstrong
News | 12 February 2014
Less than 2km of Upington street paved after a year
An expanded public works project in Upington to pave three streets of 1.8km is incomplete a year later and no account can be given of the project by the Department of Public Works, the local municipality, or the responsible councillor.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 5 February 2014
Can Khayelitsha be policed?
The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry has entered its third week. Its aim is to investigate the allegations that SAPS have been inefficient in their policing of Khayelitsha and that there has been a breakdown in police-community relations.
Adam Armstrong
Opinion | 3 February 2014