A shack fire that tore through Langrug informal settlement in Franschhoek on Saturday has been blamed on a combination of negligence and unexpected load shedding.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 9 February 2015
The Gugulethu Paralegal Advice Office in Gugulethu will soon be forced to close down if staff are unable to secure funding by April this year.
Barbara Maregele
News | 9 February 2015
The latest casualty in the claimed ātransformative restructuringā of Independent Newspapers is Bongani Fani, who has delivered Cape Times and Argus titles from Lakeside to Kalk Bay for more than 20 years. A resident of Masiphumelele and father of four, Mr Fani received a āTermination of subscription delivery contractā letter from āPG Rhoda, Circulation and Distribution Managerā last month.
Terry Bell
News | 8 February 2015
SJC activists and their supporters descended upon the Cape Town Magistrates' court this morning, anticipating judgment in a trial that has been ongoing, in stops and starts, since July last year. But there was to be no judgment, because part of the court record had been lost.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 6 February 2015
Pheliswa Cekiso, 28, was two months pregnant when she was evicted from her shack in Lwandle. In December she gave birth to a healthy boy. But the Nomzamo community hall where she lives is no place to bring up a child, she says.
Zintle Swana
News | 5 February 2015
MyCiTi bus drivers say they will not go back to work until the South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU) is recognised by Transpeninsula Investments (TPI). The strike that started yesterday continued today, with a picket outside TPI's depot.
Kevin Elliott
News | 5 February 2015
A new fund worth $25 million (R284 million) was announced at the District 6 Museum in Cape Town today. It will support organisations that are working to āadvance constitutionalismā.
GroundUp Staff
News | 5 February 2015
Learners at A.C.J. Phakade primary school in Nomzamo are back in class after a go-slow by teachers last week over sanitation problems.
Siyabonga Kalipa
Brief | 4 February 2015
āI heard a loud noise from the looters outside the supermarket,ā recalls 76-year-old Joseph Tau. āI could hear footsteps on the roof and knew they were coming for us."
Mosa Damane
News | 4 February 2015
Minister for Human Settlements Lindiwe Sisulu is in the process of drafting amendments to eviction legislation, in line with the report of the commission of inquiry into the Lwandle evictions last year.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 4 February 2015
Arrangements have been made to accommodate most of the Mfuleni learners who were using a tent as a school, according to the Western Cape Department of Education.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 4 February 2015
People watched in shock inside the Khayelitsha Home Affairs on Monday morning as a man was beaten and thrown outside by what appeared to be a Home Affairs employee.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 February 2015
With only hours to go before the cut-off time, farm workers union Csaawu (Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union) has raised the target amount of R115,000 in its first phase of online crowd funding. The money will go towards paying for legal costs incurred for defending dismissed farm workers in the Cape Town Labour Court last year.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 2 February 2015
Philippi residents say there is just no getting rid of the rats terrorising them in their homes. But the City of Cape Town has a plan to introduce owls to solve the problem.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 2 February 2015
The Qāuran and the Prophet Mohammed cannot be held responsible for the Jihadi atrocities of Boko Haram or the Islamic State groups any more than can the Christian Gospels and Jesus be held responsible for apartheid or the Ku Klux Klan. To claim otherwise is simply illogical.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 2 February 2015
Kwiinyanga ezimbalwa ezidlulileyo akukho mntu wayenokucingela ukuba uDJ osakhasayo waseKhayelitsha angavelisa enye yeengoma ezinkqenkqeza phambili zika-2014: āuKoze Kuseā.
NguZethu Gqola
News | 30 January 2015
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