14 February 2013
Night-time and Khayelitsha looks a different place to a few weeks ago. The City has repaired most of the street lights in the township's major roads; it is noticeably brighter now. Last night Mayor Patricia De Lille joined a march organised by organisations who have been demanding that the lights be repaired.
Nokubonga Yawa and Nathan Geffen
This is a debate between Professors Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings and the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU).
GroundUp Staff
A group of women marched to a house in Mau-Mau, Nyanga, to confront a man they accuse of posting nude pictures of a woman, his girlfriend, on Facebook.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
On 7 February a teenage Khayelitsha girl, Siyamthanda Mdunyelwa, was hit by a train while crossing the railway at about 7:30pm in order to escape from the police who were breaking up a gang fight.
Mihle Pike
Workers in Kwazulu-Natal clothing factories have made allegations of abuse against factory owners in affidavits provided to GroundUp.
Issa Saunders
A new refuge has opened in Khayelitsha D-section that will accommodate young homeless boys in and around Cape Town.
Mihle Pike
Mother of Donald Dricks, killed on 7 February 2012, accepts murderer Laugmaan Davids' plead for forgiveness.
Margo Fortune
Amanda Maboza is a 19-year-old poet, from the dusty streets of Gugulethu. A team consisting of her and five other youths from Cape Town's townships came 20th in a poetry competition in California in July 2012.
Margo Fortune
Ricardo Fortune explains how he has freed himself of Eskom and gone off the grid to power his house.
Janine Fortuin and Neo Sithole
Evelyn Handiseni founded a support project called Divine Caring Hands in 2012. The idea was born from her desire to help women who face challenges similar to those she has faced in her own life.
Tariro Washinyira
We asked people what they think of Valentine's Day.
Nokubonga Yawa
The government has loosed off the first major salvoes of the 2014 election campaign \xe2\x80\x94 and all of them have backfired. That is one labour movement view of three official announcements over the past ten days.
Terry Bell
Yet another shack fire has devastated the BM section of Khayelitsha. On New Years morning fires raged through the community, leaving about 4,000 people homeless and killing at least four. The responses from authorities to what has now become a routine occurrence in the area have been mixed.
Ben Fogel