Articles for GroundUp Editors

A challenge to Cape Town’s new administration: please fix the sewerage system

This is one thing which affects all of us

Fikile Mbalula demands R2 million from GroundUp reporters

He accuses us of defamation but does not point out any factual errors in our article

None of the Above wins local elections

Three terrible local election campaigns

Covid-19 testing is too expensive and too difficult in South Africa

Our current approach is probably costing lives

GroundView: There is no scientific basis for the 12am to 4am curfew

Curfew could be reinstated if hospital beds start running out

GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting

The Lottery, the law firm and the minister: more questions than answers

We have uncovered hundreds of millions of rands worth of corruption and maladministration over three years, but no one has been brought to justice

Covid-19: Unions should push harder for teachers to get vaccinated

It’s almost never a reasonable choice to not get vaccinated

GroundUp takes lawyers’ council to court

Incompetent LPC decision has given the green light to lawyers who wish to commit fraud

Social housing is vital. Opportunists are trying to derail it

Disgruntled former employees are undermining Communicare’s projects

Groundview: The Cape Town fire is an urgent reminder to offer solutions to homeless people

If people are chased away, they are likely to return until a solution is found to the problem that prompted them to move there in the first place

Vaccine rollout needs to restart immediately

Continuing the “pause” will cost lives

PRASA blunders then blames the media

And the trains are nowhere closer to running on time

PRASA chair Leonard Ramatlakane gets the facts wrong

He has relied on a dodgy document to try to link a corruption fighter to the infamous oversized locomotives deal

The questions PRASA failed to answer

South Africa’s commuter rail service has been looted. There is no sign it will stop