Waste-pickers are responsible for collecting 80 to 90% of used packaging and paper that is recycled in South Africa
By Mosima Rafapa and Julia Evans
Photo Essay | 26 April 2021
Nearly 100 years after his death, Khoisan leaders ceremonially inter his remains
Photo Essay | 22 April 2021
Massive clean-up at Florence House
By Julia Evans
Photo Essay | 16 April 2021
City says occupation is illegal and it has no funds for such unplanned settlements
By Vincent Lali
Photo Essay | 14 April 2021
Pianist Amisi Mubale teaches children at Lorentzville safe space
By Julia Evans
Photo Essay | 8 April 2021
Izwelethu informal settlement or Covid as it is nicknamed started with lockdown in March 2020
Photo Essay | 29 March 2021
The track is home to pristine critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
By John Yeld
Photo Essay | 17 March 2021
Some Mfuleni residents spent Wednesday morning clearing their waterlogged homes
Photo Essay | 11 March 2021
Sister Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi, a registered nurse and midwife, was the first person in the country to be vaccinated as part of the state’s programme
Photo Essay | 17 February 2021
Small Kommetjie community hoped to be left alone, but housing development planned on land
Photo Essay | 17 February 2021
“Place of Great Noise” lives up to its name
By John Yeld
Photo Essay | 11 February 2021
Covid-19, evictions, fires and an elephant: GroundUp’s photos of the year
Photo Essay | 22 December 2020
Nyameka Goniwe, widow of Matthew, died a week ago.
Photo Essay | 8 September 2020
Volunteers feed 250 pets from informal settlements every Saturday
Photo Essay | 3 September 2020
Young and old exercise daily to keep their spirits up during the pandemic
Photo Essay | 6 August 2020
This is an especially large occupation
Photo Essay | 24 July 2020