Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque
Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”
News | 4 February 2025
West Coast beaches polluted by oil spill
Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy
By John Yeld
News | 3 February 2025
New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres
Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste
Photo Essay | 3 February 2025
D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site
Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre
News | 31 January 2025
Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts
Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping
News | 31 January 2025
Affordable housing to be built on contested Sea Point site, says provincial government
Announcement by MEC Tertuis Simmers comes after a decade of battles
News | 30 January 2025
Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death
The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 January 2025
Night studies pay off for Dunoon matriculant
Sange Dastile studied in the early morning in the one-room house he shares with his mother and brother. Now he’s off to Stellenbosch University to study medicine.
News | 29 January 2025
Plagued by illegal dumping, residents clean up filthy suburb
Rubbish has not been collected for months in some parts of Wallacedene
Brief | 24 January 2025