Next to a small fruit stand and across the street from a hodgepodge of street vendors, Cuiyi Lin sits in front of her furniture store every day waiting for customers. She is the only non-African in the area.
Joyce Xi
Feature | 19 November 2014
Pregnant women with HIV can take three anti-HIV medicines instead of one to reduce the risk of their infants contracting the virus, according to results of a study released yesterday.
GroundUp staff
News | 18 November 2014
Bheki Kunene started his own business, Mind Trix Media, in 2009 with just R600 and a computer. Today he has eight employees and clients across the globe.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 18 November 2014
South African rugby represents the “rainbow failure”, says rugby writer Mark Fredericks, and quotas will not help.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 18 November 2014
Guerrilla graffiti artist group Tokolos Stencil Collective struck again on Monday night, this time targeting Michael Elion’s controversial giant Ray-Ban sunglasses on Sea Point promenade.
Brent Meersman
Brief | 18 November 2014
The Khayelitsha Community has been urged to use the small claims court to resolve financial disputes for amounts of up to R15,000. The court was relaunched on Friday. It was established in 2010, but never functioned.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 17 November 2014
It has been a year since regulations were published to protect the public from poor quality complementary medicines. The industry’s response has been characterised by obfuscation, denial and blatant contraventions, writes Professor Roy Jobson.
Roy Jobson
Opinion | 17 November 2014
Csaawu is facing bankruptcy for supporting farm workers dismissed after the sector’s historic strikes in 2012/13 - arguably the strongest challenge to rural labour exploitation in recent South African history. This is the story of why it is important for the union to be saved.
Daneel Knoetze
Opinion | 17 November 2014
It is no exaggeration to say that South Africa is in the midst of the most important political development since 1994.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 17 November 2014
The water flows all year round in the historic canals under the city’s streets
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
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