Author: Mary-Anne Gontsana

“When we arrived there, the fire was going crazy”

Firefighter Nathan Phillips is one of 714 employed by the City of Cape Town

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 26 April 2021

School children love this library

Lungile Moferi’s tuk-tuk doubles as a mobile library

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Brief | 23 April 2021

Khayelitsha residents want to know exactly when they will get the police station they were promised

Land for the Makhaza police station was identified already in 2004

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 16 April 2021

From sounds to hounds: How an opera singer started a dog-washing business in Khayelitsha

Masakhane Sotayisi doesn’t just clean your dog: he moisturises it too!

By Ashraf Hendricks and Mary-Anne Gontsana

Video | 23 March 2021

Shack dweller Nikiwe Sipenuka has no feet and no hands. She has been waiting for a house for years

Unclear why provincial government has not prioritised her house

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 17 March 2021

The Justice department has upgraded the Khayelitsha sexual offences court. But Rape Crisis say it’s not enough

Activists picketed outside the department’s regional office in Cape Town on Monday to demand better upgrades

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 8 March 2021

SASSA vows to meet its disability grant deadline

Virtual medical assessments will speed up the process, Western Cape legislature told

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 4 March 2021

Deadline extended for early childhood development centres’ fund

ECD centres now have until 26 February to apply for relief funds

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Brief | 22 February 2021

Applying for grants is a nightmare for early childhood development centres

“People are pulling their hair out because they have no idea how to do it”

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 12 February 2021

Some schools still not feeding learners

The national feeding scheme was meant to recommence on 27 January

By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Bernard Chiguvare

News | 9 February 2021

Closure of SASSA office leaves Saldanha Bay beneficiaries in the lurch

Applicants for disability grants have to spend R100 on a taxi ride to Vredenburg and back

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 4 February 2021

City of Cape Town ends mobile library service after 60 years

Elderly and disabled clients advised to use community libraries

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 29 January 2021

Disability grants: SASSA promises to clear Western Cape backlog by end of March

Extra doctors have been brought in, SASSA executive tells Western Cape legislature

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 21 January 2021

Police probe use of water cannon against social grant applicants

SASSA admits it’s in “crisis mode”

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 20 January 2021

Premier Winde calls on President Ramaphosa to intervene in SASSA crisis

This comes after police opened a water cannon on people queueing for grants in Bellville

By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ashraf Hendricks

News | 15 January 2021

Extend disability grants, Black Sash tells SASSA as queues shock country

SASSA has proposed a ten-point plan to deal with backlogs

By Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp Staff

News | 14 January 2021

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