Brainwashed by plastic: A GroundUp video series on the microplastics crisis

Watch part one of our six-part series on microplastics.

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Video | 29 April 2025

Alarming increase in attacks on social workers

“It was a calling for me, but the calling didn’t include me being in danger”

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Brief | 29 April 2025

Protesters in Tshwane call on Egypt to let aid into Gaza

Food aid and medical supplies are currently blocked by Israel

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Photo Essay | 29 April 2025

Families who were moved for the 2010 World Cup are still living in their “transit camp”

Residents of KwaDabeka camp implore the eThekwini municipality to hear their pleas

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Brief | 29 April 2025

In photos: Wildfire scorches Cape Town’s Silvermine reserve

An injured firefighter has been hospitalised and about 198 homes have been evacuated

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Photo Essay | 28 April 2025

Parliament accuses activists of abusing court process

#UniteBehind is challenging the constitutionality of Parliament’s new Code of Conduct

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Law | 28 April 2025

Judge delivers judgment — after 12 years

Retired judge Anton Van Zyl gave no reasons for the delay

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Law | 26 April 2025

Gayton McKenzie ruling against News24 overturned - mostly

In January the Press Ombud ruled against a story on the sports minister’s Olympic jaunt. That finding has now been largely overturned.

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Law | 25 April 2025

No identity eight years after submitting DNA evidence

Home Affairs incompetence leaves young woman stateless for decades

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News | 25 April 2025

Five months without water in Komani

New water supply project should have been completed in 2018

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News | 25 April 2025

Gold Card deadline cancelled

Postbank temporarily stops issuing Black Cards

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Brief | 24 April 2025

SASSA’s new biometric tests

People without IDs have to do it

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Brief | 24 April 2025

Western Cape schools admission policy challenged in court

Equal Education argues late applicants are blocked from accessing schooling. But department argues that parents need to apply on time.

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Law | 24 April 2025