Brief
Farm worker union funding target reached
With only hours to go before the cut-off time, farm workers union Csaawu (Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union) has raised the target amount of R115,000 in its first phase of online crowd funding. The money will go towards paying for legal costs incurred for defending dismissed farm workers in the Cape Town Labour Court last year.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 2 February 2015
Shack fire in Zola Square
Zola Square in Site C, Khayelitsha, was the site of yet another shack fire yesterday.
Photos by Masixole Feni. Text by Kevin Elliott.
Brief | 28 January 2015
Organisation provides hope and skills to thousands of kids
At 22 years of age, Brightness Khumalo, has found a job that she describes as hard but which she clearly finds rewarding.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 22 January 2015
“My son was too young to have died like this”
The father of a sixteen-year-old boy who was killed by a mob in Mfuleni yesterday has criticised the police for not being on hand to help prevent the attack or to arrest any of the killers.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 21 January 2015
South Africa gets its first chess grandmaster
Kenny Solomon from Mitchell's Plain has become the first South African to attain the coveted chess title of grandmaster.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 7 January 2015
Text of EFF interdict
On 23 December Judge Dennis Davis delivered an oral judgment in the case between the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the speaker of the National Assembly. Here is the text of that judgment.
GroundUp Staff
Brief | 1 January 2015
Witness says fire that left over 20 homeless was started by man high on tik
At noon on 10 December more than 20 people were left homeless by a fire at a hostel in Mfuleni.
Pharie Sefali
Brief | 11 December 2014
Khayelitsha pastor accused of rape has case to answer, says state
The state said it has completed its investigation on rape allegations against Khayelitsha pastor Dumisani Mathibela, and the pastor has a case to answer.
Johnnie Isaac
Brief | 11 December 2014
Csaawu launches campaign to save it from bankruptcy
Farmworkers union Csaawu has launched an online crowd-funding campaign to save it from bankruptcy.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 8 December 2014