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Human Rights Commission blasts “uncaring” Gauteng municipalities for water crisis
22 May 2026 | ARTICLE
By Seth Thorne
The Yeoville water tower in Johannesburg. Archive photo: Masego Mafata. In the final two days of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) public inquiry held in Parktown, Gauteng municipalit...
Human Rights Commission calls for submissions on Gauteng water crisis
15 April 2026 | ARTICLE
By Seth Thorne
A burst water pipe on Joe Slovo drive in Johannesburg has not been fixed for some time. Nearly 50% of the metro’s water is lost or not billed. Photo: Seth Thorne The South African Human Rights Commis...
Documentary reveals SA’s skewed food system
30 March 2026 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...environmental harm and food insecurity. At a screening in Cape Town on Friday, activists discussed what action can be taken to make the food system more equitable. Nearly one in five households in S...
TotalEnergies in court over offshore oil and gas drilling
24 March 2026 | ARTICLE
By Liezl Human
...rights and production rights and “treats them as separate and distinct rights with different obligations and requirements”. TotalEnergies proposes to drill one exploration well and if it is successful...
New play honours murdered environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase
16 March 2026 | ARTICLE
By Ihsaan Haffejee
...rights, resource extraction, the climate crisis, and the vulnerability of environmental activists. The play is based on months of research and community consultations. The creative team worked with en...
St Lucia fishers take government to court
14 January 2026 | ARTICLE
By Barry Christianson
...rights … When the law grants people wide powers to limit rights, it must also ensure that those powers are properly exercised,” Michelle Joshua, co-director of Masifundise, wrote in her affidavit for ...
Kimberley’s big hole of municipal failure
10 December 2025 | ARTICLE
By Steve Kretzmann
...environmental pollution, the loss of potential jobs and revenue, and a threat to human health. But this is just one of the municipality’s failures. Finances, water supply, waste management, and commun...
Kimberley: A provincial capital sunk in sewage
1 December 2025 | ARTICLE
By Steve Kretzmann
...Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development responded to GroundUp’s questions on the matter. Kimberley resident and DA MP Delmaine Christians said some of the 26 affected families were ac...
Maseru dump site to be closed after community goes to court
28 November 2025 | ARTICLE
By Sechaba Mokhethi
...rights to a clean and healthy environment. Court papers detailed how families were being “literally choked” by plumes of smoke, had to endure bad odours, and live at constant risk of airborne, waterbo...
Fight over tourism development in the Cederberg
22 October 2025 | ARTICLE
By John Yeld
...environmental authorisation. The provincial Department of Environmental Affairs fined Kok R625,000 but later reduced this to R125,000, citing his membership of the Cederberg Conservancy as one of the ...