29 January 2015
Hundreds of learners are using a tent in Mfuleni\xe2\x80\x99s Bardale neighbourhood as a school after parents say they were turned away from primary and high schools in the area which are full.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Manenberg residents believe night marches by community members and increased police visibility helped to restore peace to the area this week.
Barbara Maregele
Setting up a public gym can be an expensive business, but chance and hard work conspired to create two bustling fitness outlets in Alexandra near Sandton. And these gyms are not just about looking good: a big part of iKasi Gym\xe2\x80\x99s focus is building strength of character.
Jon Pienaar
A few months ago no one could have predicted that a small-time DJ from Khayelitsha would produce what would be one of the hits of 2014: \xe2\x80\x98Koze Kuse\xe2\x80\x99.
Zethu Gqola
Hundreds of unemployed Kimberley residents have turned to digging deserted mine dumps to earn a living.
Douglas Mthukwane
Draft regulations for drone usage in South Africa do not have safeguards against the use of the devices by the state as weapons or to invade people\xe2\x80\x99s privacy, activists have warned. But the sub-committee in charge of compiling the regulations has said Constitutional rights will not be violated.
Daneel Knoetze
Three Zimbabwean men whose permits are pending have been told to leave their jobs at Touareg Tents in Capricorn Business Park and return only when they can prove they are legally in the country.
Tariro Washinyira
With only days to go before the deadline, activists from TB Proof have raised the R230,000 needed for Phumeza Tisile to have cochlear implants. The operation will give Tisile, a tuberculosis patient turned activist, the opportunity to hear again.
Daneel Knoetze
Hung over and want to stay in bed? Missed a deadline for a university assignment? Mancane and his colleagues in Katlehong may be able to help you.
Pharie Sefali
Zola Square in Site C, Khayelitsha, was the site of yet another shack fire yesterday.
Photos by Masixole Feni. Text by Kevin Elliott.
Last week Nikki Stein from SECTION27 expressed reservations about the piloting of paperless classrooms at seven township schools in Gauteng. MEC for Education in the province, Panyaza Lesufi, responds here.
Panyaza Lesufi
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) extravaganza got underway last week as 700 private jets whizzed into the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos. This is a gathering where the heads of immensely rich corporations wine, dine, bribe and bully various power brokers and wannabe tycoons to do their bidding and to adopt policies that suit the corporate world.
Terry Bell
This is a response by Councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, Mayoral Committee Member for Utility Services, to GroundUp's article “Is this the Dirtiest Job in Cape Town?” published on 21 January.
Ernest Sonnenberg
Bayhill United Legacy Grounds in Rocklands was abuzz at the weekend as teams from across Cape Town competed in the play-offs of the 2015 U19 Metropolitan Premier Cup, also known as the Bayhill Cup.
Siyabonga Kalipa