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Maid in SA: an extract from Zukiswa Wanner’s latest book
Novelist Zukiswa Wanner is well known for her fast-paced, witty novels. Her racy narratives and intelligent humour offer razor-sharp insights into contemporary urban life, placing the new black middleclass under the magnifying glass.
Zukiswa Wanner
News | 10 December 2013
South Africa is at an economic impasse - an interview with Mark Heywood
Mark Heywood has been one of the leaders of the Treatment Action Campaign since it started on 10 December 1998. He has also directed the AIDS Law Project since 1997 and its successor, SECTION27.
GroundUp Staff
News | 10 December 2013
Bank drives woman to brink of homelessness
Kutala Mtyali's sits on the couch of her house, perhaps for the last day, and tries to piece together the ongoing saga of her 26 year struggle to keep her home. Family members help her with names and dates. She is on the brink of homelessness.
Jared Sacks
News | 9 December 2013
Alide Dasnois exemplifies quiet integrity and commitment to quality media
Alide Dasnois has been fired from her position as editor of the Cape Times.
GroundUp Editor
News | 8 December 2013
Nelson Mandela: An interview with Zackie Achmat
Nelson Mandela has died. He inspired and led the struggle for freedom and against the oppression of apartheid. GroundUp interviewed Zackie Achmat about Mandela. In the 2000s, Achmat led the struggle for life-saving medicines for people with HIV.
GroundUp Staff
News | 6 December 2013
Drought and debt for Northern Cape small farmers
In the middle of a drought, small scale subsistence farmers on the outskirts of Paballelo in the Northern Cape are facing a bill of R1.3 million for water.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 5 December 2013