Feature
R400 million firearms control system in shambles
Pressure is mounting on the police to sort out problems with a R400 million firearms control system, ten years after the contract to develop it was signed with Pretoria-based company Waymark Infotech.
Daneel Knoetze
Feature | 17 October 2014
In the business of building shacks
Sheffield Road, one of the busiest roads in Philippi, has become one of the city’s best-known places to buy a shack. Here, builders make a living providing affordable housing for township residents.
Joyce Xi and Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 14 October 2014
Ebola: Where are the sick and dying?
The driver puts his fist on the hooter insistently, indicating to oncoming vehicles, people and animals to move out of our path, which is obscured by lush forest at every corner.
Kathryn Stinson
Feature | 7 October 2014
Khayelitsha toilet audit finds “dire” results
One in four of the Khayelitsha public toilets, which are supposed to be cleaned by the City of Cape Town's janitorial services, is not working, a social audit by the Social Justice Coalition has found.
GroundUp staff
Feature | 1 October 2014
How a group of Cape Flats women is trying to make their community safer
During the day, a group of six women from the Retreat area enjoy beadwork, looking after their grandchildren and helping the aged, but at night, they take on the streets in one of the most notorious gang-ridden areas of the Cape Flats.
Barbara Maregele and Katy Scott
Feature | 28 September 2014
The state of South African Sign Language
The last full week of September, which is Deaf Awareness Month, is the International Week of the Deaf. This year the theme is ‘Strengthening Human Diversity’.
Katy Scott
Feature | 26 September 2014
Why I am going to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola
It’s been a month since I applied and now it’s a matter of days until I go. I head to Europe for briefing before landing in Freetown, Sierra Leone next Tuesday.
Kathryn Stinson
Feature | 26 September 2014
Understanding epilepsy
Traditional Xhosa views on epilepsy clash with medical experts.
Zintle Swana
Feature | 22 September 2014
What is UCT’s new admissions policy?
The University of Cape Town is changing its admissions policy to take into account disadvantage as well as race. The new policy is complex. We have tried here to explain it accurately and simply.
Katy Scott and GroundUp staff
Feature | 8 September 2014