Aubrey â âDr Shockâ â Levin, the South African army psychiatrist accused of torturing gays and dissidents in the apartheid military, has started a five-year jail term in Canada.
Terry Bell
News | 30 April 2014
When David Olyn was tortured and murdered in the idyllic Western Cape town of Ceres just because he was gay, the town's residents came together to fight homophobia.
GroundUp Staff
News | 25 April 2014
Representatives of political parties got a grilling from UCT students last night at a debate on the university campus.
Pharie Sefali
News | 24 April 2014
âLack of access to water and sanitation is an insult to human dignity,â emphasised the Social Justice Coalition (SJC)in a National Sanitation Summit held at Community House in Salt River yesterday.
Bulelani Ngovi
News | 24 April 2014
In an interview with GroundUp, former TAC leader and current director of Ndifuna Ukwazi Zackie Achmat said this time he will not be voting for the ANC in the 7 May elections.
GroundUp Staff
News | 24 April 2014
Political parties participated in a discussion yesterday at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) constituency after 20 years of democracy.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 24 April 2014
Nyanga residents are looking for a 20 year old man accused of stealing a plasma TV from his neighbour and said to be a rapist and a gangster.
Pharie Sefali
News | 23 April 2014
The trial of Angy Peter and Isaac Mbadu continued last week after a two week recess. Peter and Mbadu are on trial, along with two others, Azola Dayimani and Christopher Dina, for the murder by ânecklacingâ of Rowan du Preez in October 2012.
Simone Haysom
News | 23 April 2014
While the Marikana hearings drift through the doldrums in Rustenberg, at Khayelitshaâs Lookout Hill another commission into police failings is cautiously gathering momentum. The OâRegan-Pikoli Commission of Inquiry is a timely and consolatory reminder of the judicial efficiency South Africa is capable of.
Richard Conyngham
Opinion | 22 April 2014
While Oscar Pistoriusâs trial is one of the most watched in history, the trial of Angy Peter and Isaac Mbadu has been running at the same time. It tells us far more about crime, policing and justice in South Africa than the Pistorius one.
Joel Bregman
Feature | 22 April 2014
In our on-going series of interviews with the public, GroundUp asks if people intend to vote, for which party, and why.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 17 April 2014
Nearly two decades into our democracy, for most people living in South Africa our Constitution might as well be written in Latin, because it is more than likely that they have never read it.
Tim Fish Hodgson and Tawana Nharingo
Opinion | 17 April 2014
The Social Justice Coalition is âdelightedâ at the progress of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing, said the coalitionâs Joel Bregman.
Adam Armstrong
News | 16 April 2014
GroundUp spoke to people about the elections, asking whether they would vote, who they would vote for and why. This is the first of a series GroundUp will be running.
Mary-Anne Gontsana and Pharie Sefali
News | 16 April 2014
At a meeting on 12 April convened by Ikasi Pride, members of a divided gay and lesbian community discussed the future of gay pride in the city, its steady depoliticisation, its lack of community outreach and its image problem.
Brent Meersman
Opinion | 15 April 2014
Activist Kenith Abrahams, who was a friend of David Olyn, a gay man murdered in Ceres three weeks ago, says gay people in the community do not feel safe.
Pharie Sefali
News | 15 April 2014