Every year, hundreds of young adults "age out" of the foster care system in South Africa when they officially become adults at or around their 18th birthday. It is a big transition that often comes with very little support.
Verity Fitzgerald
News | 7 May 2013
GroundUp interviewed Thulani Hlatswayo, the 23-year-old centre-back from Ajax Cape Town to see how he feels about the team's progress and the upcoming Liverpool match.
Margo Fortune
News | 6 May 2013
Sive Pekezela from Gugulethu plays right-wing for Swedish team Gefle IF. He is just 20 years old.
Margo Fortune
News | 30 April 2013
Luke Turner was beaten up by Metrorail security guards last Monday for not having a ticket.
Margo Fortune
News | 30 April 2013
The Democratic Alliance markets itself as an efficient and un-corrupt alternative to the ANC. It never hesitates to point out serious service delivery failures by the ANC. So it is interesting to see its responses to the Social Justice Coalition's criticisms of the City of Cape Town's handling of a major toilet supply contract in Khayelitsha.
Nathan Geffen
News | 30 April 2013
"The toilets are not very good. They are unstable and fall over a lot," says Nomtheto Ndzime, a Khayelitsha resident, about the toilets provided by the City of Cape Town.
Fergus Turner
News | 30 April 2013
Last week GroundUp's Mary-Anne Gontsana reported the terrible state of schools in the Eastern Cape she saw on the "solidarity visit" organised by Equal Education. Today she describes the impressions of some of the well-known South Africans who also participated.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 29 April 2013