Feature
New technology might transform small-scale fishing
App connects fishers, scientists and fishery management
By Ashleigh Furlong and Masixole Feni
Feature | 24 February 2016
How drought is destroying KZN’s cattle farms
Lack of rain has forced farmers to make difficult decisions
Feature | 11 February 2016
Ward 69: Fragmented by apartheid era planning
This area will be closely contested in the Municipal elections
Feature | 1 February 2016
Philippi ward beset by internal politics
There is a political battle underway in Philippi's Ward 33. The fight is not between opposing political parties, however, but within the ANC itself, with former ward councillor Monwabisi Mbaliswano in one corner and the present incumbent, Nico Mzalisi, in the other.
Feature | 14 January 2016
Where are the traffic death statistics?
The government agency responsible for publishing them has not done so since March 2011.
By Barbara Maregele and GroundUp Staff
Feature | 11 January 2016
Old and on the street
Theresa Fisher was born in what was then Rhodesia, in 1950. Simon Jacobs was born in what was then Transkei, in 1957. Both of them have ended up, in 2015, begging on the same street corner in Rondebosch.
Tariro Washinyira
Feature | 11 December 2015
State accused of letting Tormin damage West Coast
Activists have accused government officials of turning a blind eye to a pattern of environmental violations at the Tormin dune mine on the West Coast – including a “catastrophic” cliff collapse – after state departments failed to act on a string of letters, objections and a formal appeal.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 11 December 2015
Dismay as cops withdraw cases against Tormin managers
Police cases against three Tormin mine managers, one of whom was accused of driving into and knocking over a mineworker during a strike, have all been withdrawn.
Barbara Maregele
Feature | 11 December 2015
Bellville South is bursting at the seams
Mercia Kleinsmith has been the councillor of Ward 9, or Bellville South, since 2009. She won a by-election following the death of her husband Glen, the day after the DA won the province in April that year. Glen had been hailed in the press as the city’s “leading drugbuster”.
Steve Kretzmann
Feature | 9 December 2015