Feature
Battle over mining rights in remote Eastern Cape villages
Mgungundlovu residents and government to meet in court in April
Feature | 19 February 2018
Why Dunoon has erupted
Roads have been blockaded and MyCiTi bus stations destroyed
Feature | 16 February 2018
A Manenberg mother’s desperate struggle to save her son
Shereen Adams fought for her son’s life when he was shot during gang violence. Now she’s fighting to keep him at school.
Feature | 29 January 2018
The forgotten mining town where rape is “normal”
Women and children bear the brunt of lawlessness at Durban Deep
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 16 January 2018
Roadside artist uses tins to show life in informal settlements
I love using my hands, says William Mayere
Feature | 11 January 2018
Murder and corruption in the mining town the world forgot
Gold buyers in expensive cars extort rock-bottom prices from Durban Deep’s zama zamas, while the police look on
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 11 January 2018
How fishing in a Western Cape town is dying
“Our people have lived off the river for years … but fish don’t come here anymore”
Feature | 8 December 2017
What happens when people in state housing cannot pay the rent?
A look at what happened at Steenvilla, Cape Town’s largest social housing complex
By Shaun Swingler and Maxwell Roeland
Feature | 5 December 2017
Treasury covering up grand-scale corruption at PRASA
Deputy Finance Minister Sfiso Buthelezi and former CEO Lucky Montana implicated over and over again
By Steve Kretzmann and GroundUp Staff
Feature | 29 November 2017