DJ Sbu performed in Khayelitsha yesterday. Groundup spoke to DJ Sbu after his performance. We asked for his message for the youth of Khayelitsha.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 4 May 2012
Toilets in many Cape Flats schools are in poor condition. GroundUp visited a school with a serious problem with its toilets and also interviewed the Western Cape Education Department about plans for addressing the problem.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 3 May 2012
Taxi owners and members of the Congress for Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) have recently joined in to help curb the escalating crime and gangsterism in Khayelitsha by patrolling areas and doing search and seizures.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 May 2012
Moonlight Productions organised a cocktail party for youth in Nyanga East to celebrate Freedom Day on Sunday night.
Mary-jane Matsolo
News | 2 May 2012
The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, has filed a notice to oppose Equal Education’s (EE) court case for minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 24 April 2012
Residents of Island in Khayelitsha TR section have been terrorised by rats for more than a decade. Situated between a highway and a blocked drainage canal, the residents also have to deal with the stench that comes from the canal which is infested with mosquitoes.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 April 2012
Clinicians and AIDS workers have condemned Imuniti Holdings for claims it is making about its nutritional supplements. Henry Stassen, from Edge to Edge Investments, which distributes for Imuniti, says the company manufactures a nutritional pack that eradicates HIV.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 19 April 2012
When GroundUp journalists visited Maitland Home Affairs, they noticed clients and their children struggling to hop into the portable toilets to avoid the stagnant water surrounding them.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 19 April 2012
“We are fighting for our freedom, our freedom to go anywhere we want to go in Khayelitsha,” says Latinyo, an 18-year-old grade 12 learner from Khayelitsha's H-section. He has been involved in gangs since the age of 12 and says he has lost count of how many murders he has committed.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 April 2012
The Maitland office of Home Affairs is turning away asylum seekers daily because it is running out of paper.
Veronica Washaya
News | 17 April 2012
Hundreds of disgruntled asylum seekers, who have been turned away for several months without assistance, demonstrated on Friday at the Maitland Home Affairs premises.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 17 April 2012
The rubbish stacked against the wall of Gugulethu's NY132 stadium has grown to the point that residents are unable to walk on the pavement.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 16 April 2012