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Angolan former refugees face uncertain future

Special permits expire at the end of 2021

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 1 October 2019

KZN woman can’t get an ID because she’s “dead”

Home Affairs insists Noluvu Mathumbu died in 2007

By Musa Binda

News | 1 October 2019

Court grants prisoner permission to use his laptop

Denying laptop infringed Mbalenhle Ntuli’s right to study, says judge

By Zoë Postman

News | 1 October 2019

Photo of woman standing over the site where her house is to be built

North West housing project halted by angry residents

Residents claim housing allocation process excluded poor people in the community

By Sana Mabena

News | 30 September 2019

Two crime hotspots still without permanent police stations

Five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, recommendation to build new station still not implemented

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 27 September 2019

Nightmare labour for mother in Limpopo hospital

Health department says incident was “truly unacceptable”

By Thomo Nkgadima

News | 26 September 2019

Gang violence: Mother of slain Bishop Lavis woman doesn’t have much faith in the army

Police use rubber bullets during protest against violence

By Ashraf Hendricks

News | 25 September 2019

South African teenager wins international photographic award

Powerful image sheds light on desperate measures to save rhinos

By Fred Kockott and Mlu Mdletshe

News | 25 September 2019

The dangerous trade of the coal hunter

Stealing coal from goods trains to make a living

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 23 September 2019

The village where women can’t afford to report rape

Nearest police station is 120 kilometres away

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 23 September 2019

Family losing hope of finding body of informal gold miner

Witness Manono died in April in Mpumalanga

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 23 September 2019

South Africans come out in support of #ClimateStrike

“You’ll die of old age. I’ll die of climate change”

By Sandisiwe Shoba, Zoë Postman, Thamsanqa Mbovane and Masixole Feni

News | 20 September 2019

Children protest against gang violence after learners killed in Elsie’s River

“We are fed up! Enough is enough!”

By Sandisiwe Shoba

News | 20 September 2019

Photo of people with placards outside court

Skwatsha agrees not to move more families onto Stellenbosch farm

Court to rule on status of Die Akker evictees next month

By Vincent Lali and GroundUp Staff

News | 20 September 2019

Kirkwood residents fume while municipality and province blame each other for lack of housing

I have never lived in a proper house, says Xoliswa Ntsilathana

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 20 September 2019

Completed in 2014, this police station has never been used

Villagers battle crime while new police station stands empty

By Sana Mabena

News | 20 September 2019