News
Solution to Dunoon’s railway occupation foiled
People living on Transnet land were meant to be relocated in 2013. But the plan stalled when more people moved onto the railway tracks.
News | 16 December 2025
SAPS is drowning in unsolved dockets
There were 1.9-million unsolved cases by the end of the 2024 financial year
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.
News | 12 December 2025
Broken promises: Sarah Baartman Centre is a case study in government failure
Hundreds of millions spent and a decade behind schedule
News | 11 December 2025
Living on R2,320 a month: Here’s how a pensioner spends her grant
“Sometimes by the 15th of the month, the groceries are all done,” says 61-year-old Noah Libbie
News | 11 December 2025
Botched permits spoil start to crayfish season
West Coast small-scale fishers demand answers from fisheries department
By Liezl Human
News | 11 December 2025
Police fail to confiscate firearms from domestic violence perpetrators, report finds
Guns are used in 35% of murders of women
News | 11 December 2025
Clinic staff are extorting immigrants to access life-saving medicines
Immigrants say they are being charged for ARVs, chronic medication and baby immunisations at some Gauteng clinics
News | 10 December 2025
After the shelter: Cape Town’s urgent need to house homeless people
Shelters and Safe Spaces are only stop-gap solutions. Transitional accommodation and support is needed, say experts.
News | 10 December 2025
Lesotho’s Parliament blocks debate on explosive hospital report
The wife of the foreign affairs minister features prominently in the report
News | 9 December 2025