South Africa | GroundUp

We’ve been forgotten, say people with disabilities in Musina

People are living in houses that don’t cater for their needs

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 3 May 2023

For years, subsidies have been withheld from poorest Eastern Cape schools

Schools now set to receive missing R872.5-million

By Rod Amner

News | 2 May 2023

New National Lotteries Commission Board appointed

Three new board members named

By Raymond Joseph

Brief | 2 May 2023

South Africa and the International Criminal Court: what next?

Putin’s visit puts the spotlight back on South Africa’s membership

By Gerhard Kemp

Law | 2 May 2023

“Our kids survive on pap and tea,” says protesting COGTA worker

Hundreds march to Luthuli House on Workers’ Day, demanding higher wages

By Chris Gilili

News | 2 May 2023

Popular TV show fined for domestic violence episode

There was no corrective to Isencane Lengane’s depiction of gender-based violence, says the Broadcasting Complaints Commission

By Dave Chambers

News | 2 May 2023

Judicial Conduct Committee split over action against two judges

The judges were late delivering numerous judgments and now face disciplinary hearings

By Tania Broughton

Law | 30 April 2023

Crackdown on judges for late judgments

JSC asks president to suspend Judges Tshifhiwa Maumela and Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi

By Tania Broughton

News | 28 April 2023

Makhanda literacy project shows dramatic results

Whistle Stop School pulls learners out of class for short periods to teach them to read

By Lucas Nowicki

News | 28 April 2023

Refugees evicted from UNHCR offices find shelter in an old school

The building does not have toilets or electricity. But the refugees say it is better than Lindela Repatriation Centre

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 28 April 2023

Celebrating Langa through its artists

Founders of the township’s first art gallery have big plans for its future

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Feature | 28 April 2023

Panashe, four months old, lives in a ditch with his mother

Melissa Gwarimba just wishes the Musina municipality would provide bathrooms for homeless people

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 28 April 2023

Freedom Day in Philippi: gunshots, robberies and piles of rubbish

Crime has free rein in one of Cape Town’s poorest suburbs

By Sandiso Phaliso

Feature | 27 April 2023

Hundreds of COGTA workers protest in Pretoria over unpaid wages

COGTA blames implementing agent, whose contract ended in March, for delays

By Chris Gilili

News | 26 April 2023

“Freedom Day is for rich people.” Shackdwellers protest in Durban

Residents of informal settlements march to city hall

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 26 April 2023

Langa Centenary celebrations to kick off on Freedom Day

10km run to honour Makhosonke Fika, Langa’s legendary long-distance runner

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 26 April 2023