Sesâkhona Peoples Rights Movement has given the Western Cape regional office of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa seven working days to respond to its memorandum of demands.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 6 November 2014
Cape Times opinion page editor and veteran journalist Tony Weaver has been called before a disciplinary hearing after questioning a suggestion to crop out the logo of an advertiser from a news photo of a mall robbery.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 31 October 2014
A credibility crisis in South Africaâs independent media is unfolding this week, writes Patrick Bond.
Patrick Bond
Analysis | 28 October 2014
On 26 October, former Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan resigned from the board of Hosken Consolidated Investments, which owns etv. Here is her resignation letter.
Barbara Hogan
Opinion | 28 October 2014
The Adjustment Budget got very little coverage last week, but it is vital to understand it, explain Carlene van der Westhuizen and Thokozile Madonko.
Carlene van der Westhuizen and Thokozile Madonko
Analysis | 27 October 2014
Parliamentâs Portfolio Committee on Policing should ask police management some tough questions, writes Zackie Achmat in the second in a series of articles on policing.
Zackie Achmat
Opinion | 24 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
Platinum mining giant Lonmin could have found the money to meet rock drillersâ pay demands instead of shifting funds between subsidiaries, possibly to avoid tax.
GroundUp staff
News | 16 October 2014
Daars a nuwe hond in die omgewing en hy raas soos ân baas! Kak gevaarlik and here to claim back the throne as the original Afrikaans gangsters, Dookoom have dropped a 4-track EP, A Gangster Called Big Times, and with the controversy caused by the debut single âLarney Jou Poesâ, there are no sorryâs here.
Zethu Gqola
Opinion | 15 October 2014
The SA Student Congress (SASCO) has split and a new breakaway organisation has won seats on the Student Representative Councils of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape.
Zintle Swana
News | 9 October 2014
This week we look at the SERIâs workshop on law related to eviction, the social dialogue for the gay and lesbian community, TACâs march for better services and IOMâs public debate on human trafficking.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 8 October 2014
Many Mfuleni learners walk to and from school in Khayelitsha every day, but some have found their own mode of transport: they show their bodies to persuade drivers to give them money for transport or a lift.
Pharie Sefali
News | 7 October 2014
Shortly after returning to KwaZulu Natal from the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) Western Cape relaunch, Thuli Ndlovu, a branch chairperson in the shackdwellersâ movement, was gunned down in her shack.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 1 October 2014
The Gauteng High Court has ruled that the expulsion of ten Samwu provincial office bearers by the union between April and June this year was unlawful.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 30 September 2014
Learners from a number of schools in Cape Town had the opportunity to meet surviving Rivonia trialists when a replica of Nelson Mandelaâs prison cell on Robben Island was launched to tour the country.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 17 September 2014