South Africa | GroundUp

Activists impatient with long wait for promised social housing

City of Cape Town says national government slow to release “well-located” land for affordable housing

By Marecia Damons

News | 12 August 2021

Eastern Cape village without water since 2019

A pensioner says she has to use the little money she has to pay youths to collect water from a neighbouring community

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Brief | 12 August 2021

Small businesses in Gauteng may never open again after July riots

Shopkeepers say they are unlikely to be able to access relief funds

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 12 August 2021

Mother without ID struggles for years to enrol children at school

The departments of Home Affairs and Social Development are currently helping the Kuilsriver family

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 12 August 2021

State refused to help immigrant fire victims, so this organisation stepped up

Immigrants who lost their shacks in a fire in Briardene last month were refused building materials by the state

By Nokulunga Majola

Brief | 12 August 2021

Deaths from Covid-19 are more than double the official count

Researchers have suggested how government can help fix the numbers

By Michael Cherry and Nathan Geffen

Science | 12 August 2021

Some people haven’t received their disability grants since the start of the year

Frustrated temporary disability grant beneficiaries say SASSA offices are not coping

By Liezl Human

News | 11 August 2021

Family waits 11 hours at roadside with body of child killed in a hit-and-run

Three-year-old Mtshidzi Ngwenya was killed at a pedestrian crossing on the N1 in Limpopo at 1pm. Pathologists only came after midnight

By Bernard Chiguvare

Brief | 11 August 2021

Draft Cape Town by-law could see land occupiers fined or imprisoned for up to two years, fear housing activists

Treating occupiers as criminals fails to recognise that the vast majority of people are forced to take land, says Ndifuna Ukwazi

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 11 August 2021

Covid-19: A glimpse behind the scenes at Groote Schuur Hospital

Doctors describe innovation, adaptation - and despair

By James Stent

News | 11 August 2021

Makana municipality insists these toilets have been fixed and are in use. But there’s a padlock on the gate

Taxi drivers, commuters, and vendors complain

By Loyiso Dyongman

News | 11 August 2021

“We don’t want handouts. We want land”

Western Cape farm workers picket outside parliament

By Liezl Human

Brief | 11 August 2021

Millions in Lottery funds spent on one-night “music and arts festival”

NPO was given R4.8 million for the concert

By Mkhuseli Sizani and Raymond Joseph

Feature | 10 August 2021

Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Those who dispute that the Covid vaccines used in South Africa are safe and effective are just wrong

By Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan

Opinion | 10 August 2021

No major setbacks for social grant payments in areas hit by riots

SASSA says many buildings it used were damaged and electronic equipment looted

By Nokulunga Majola

News | 10 August 2021

Elderly people waited in vain for hours for vaccines at Gqeberha site

Health department excuse is nonsense, according to researcher tracking vaccine supply

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 10 August 2021