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Eastern Cape building workers left high and dry
Some 20,000 building workers in the Eastern Cape are not covered by any minimum wage agreement.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and GroundUp staff
News | 21 October 2015
Silicosis: Anglo American joins the fray
Lawyers for gold mining companies ERPM, DRD and Anglo American added their voices on Tuesday to those of their colleagues fighting the silicosis action in the South Gauteng High Court.
Pete Lewis
News | 21 October 2015
UCT students defy court order
Students at UCT, protesting at a planned 10.3% fee hike, marched on the university residences today and then on Rondebosch police station to demand the release of students arrested this morning.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 20 October 2015
Philippi livestock farmer can’t find land
A Philippi family is desperately looking for somewhere to keep their goats and sheep after being told they can no longer keep them in the area they have farmed for ten years.
Siyavuya Khaya
News | 20 October 2015
Mines not liable for TB, silicosis hearing told
Mines cannot be held liable for TB, advocates for the gold mines told the South Gauteng High Court yesterday.
Pete Lewis
News | 20 October 2015
Masiphumelele residents march for peace
Over 500 residents marched and sang through the streets of Masiphumelele on Sunday in a march for peace organised by the Masiphumelele Youth Development Forum (MYDF). The march comes after weeks of violence, including murders and rapes, incidents of mob justice, a march for more policing that turned violent, and after residents held a prayer service on Thursday for a better community.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 20 October 2015
Students shut down UCT
UCT students uniting under the banner of #feesmustfall and #UCTshutdown protested today against the 10.3% fee increase for 2016. The students demanded an emergency meeting with the university council and a meeting between all vice-chancellors in the country, the Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene and the Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande, to discuss university fees.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 19 October 2015
No birth certificate, no education: how Home Affairs has failed a Cape Town family
When other kids their age are at school learning, Thandeka Plaatjies, aged 10, helps her mother with chores and plays with her siblings – Thandiswa, age nine, and Luthando, age seven – outside their home in Westlake township.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 19 October 2015
Social grants: state decides not to award tender
In 2012 South Africa’s social grant and pension payment system changed in two important ways: Firstly, administration and payment was outsourced by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to a single private company called Cash Paymaster Services (CPS); secondly, and as a result, all social grants began to be paid directly into specifically-created bank accounts for every beneficiary.
Ben Stanwix
News | 16 October 2015