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G4S in last-ditch bid to keep Mangaung Prison contract
Employees uncertain if they will still have jobs at the prison where Thabo Bester escaped
News | 27 July 2023
Conditions for R350-a-month grant to be challenged in court
Department of Social Development is “deliberately excluding” eligible recipients of the Social Relief of Distress grant, says economist
By Daniel Steyn
News | 27 July 2023
Census: Here’s where things stand
It was delayed by Covid, but it is scheduled to be released within months
News | 27 July 2023
Ten years after GroundUp revealed her plight, a disabled woman and her autistic son are still living in a tiny shack with no electricity or sanitation
Musa Pani is now 17 and nothing has changed for the better
News | 27 July 2023
SAMWU march in Tshwane marred by violence over “internal problems”
Thousands of South African Municipal Workers’ Union members marched in Pretoria on Wednesday to demand higher salaries
News | 26 July 2023
Evicted families take “eco-friendly” property developer to court
MaxxLiving claims to “create jobs, profit, culture and prosperity” - but it may be in contempt of court for not housing 15 families after a court order
News | 26 July 2023
Road Accident Fund fails to respond to whistleblower allegations
GroundUp experiences first hand the RAF’s dysfunction
News | 26 July 2023
Two years after Phoenix violence, anger at government inaction
This comes as two brothers are set to be sentenced in August
News | 26 July 2023
Khayelitsha families rally to help bury three children who died after playing on dump site
City of Cape Town and SAPS are investigating the deaths
News | 25 July 2023