South Africa | GroundUp

Sewage in the sea: City fails to meet Hout Bay permit conditions

The City of Cape Town’s own data shows it is releasing more sewage than is allowed

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 17 November 2023

Public works slammed for mismanagement of prime Cape Town property

A two-hectare property and heritage buildings have been left to ruin

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 17 November 2023

Teenager’s drowning highlights broken promises in Kliptown

Families living in crumbling houses near the river bank say Gauteng government promised to relocate them years ago

By Silver Sibiya

News | 17 November 2023

Spoekiesdorp families haunted by past evictions and uncertain future

“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”

Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 17 November 2023

“We are back”: Khulumani pensioners sleep outside Constitutional Court

They say they are owed apartheid reparations

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 16 November 2023

Hundreds march to the City Hall in Durban demanding jobs

Retrenched Public Employment Programme (PEP) workers want to be reinstated by eThekwini municipality

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

Brief | 16 November 2023

Call for a national early childhood feeding scheme

There is no government nutrition programme for children before they enter formal schooling

By Sonia A. Rao

Brief | 16 November 2023

22 Gauteng schools built with asbestos still haven’t been replaced

Historic Kliptown Primary School is one of them

By Marvin Adams

News | 16 November 2023

South African Jews call for ceasefire in Gaza

“We are a diverse group of South African Jews who are dismayed by the situation that is unfolding in Israel and Palestine”

By Liezl Human and Nathan Geffen

News | 15 November 2023

Western Cape small-scale fishers finally get their rights

Fisheries department announces long-awaited permits finalised in the Western Cape

By Liezl Human

News | 15 November 2023

Activists doorstop police to demand answers for brutal barbershop assault

Police and IPID silent on the investigation into the assault of Juma Igiranieza on 7 November

By Qaqamba Falithenjwa

Brief | 15 November 2023

Shack dwellers want sand mining halted

They say the sand is damaging their shacks. The City of Cape Town says the affected households will only be relocated in 2024

By Vincent Lali

News | 15 November 2023

Khayelitsha schools battle illegal electricity connections

Electricity theft has left Nomsa Maphongwana Primary School in Mandela Park with a Eskom bill of more than R167,880

By Vincent Lali

News | 15 November 2023

Lawyers for Human Rights to challenge Tshwane’s eviction of homeless people

On Friday, metro police forcefully removed people living at Burgers Park and confiscated all of their belongings.

By Silver Sibiya

News | 14 November 2023

Over 260 court judgments outstanding for more than six months

It is the highest number of late judgments since GroundUp started reporting the issue

By Marecia Damons

Law | 14 November 2023

Limpopo villagers have to pray for rain or buy borehole water

Two villages in the Malamulele region don’t have access to clean running water, despite the municipality installing boreholes there.

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 14 November 2023