Civil Society
Will the cars be safe here?
It was another sweltering hot day as the Commission of Inquiry continued its inspections around Khayelitsha. Crime hotspots and locations for community courts were visited. These include Nkanini, Harare Park and Ilitha Park.
Adam Armstrong
News | 23 January 2014
The week in political activism
This week, we cover the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, what’s happening in education and the patent wars.
Brent Meersman and GroundUp Staff
News | 22 January 2014
Understanding the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry
The Commission of Inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha starts today. Here’s a quick and simple guide to it.
Adam Armstrong
News | 21 January 2014
Mshengu toilets down again
Mshengu’s blue chemical toilets have once again toppled over in Khayelitsha’s BM Section causing residents to defecate in the bushes.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 January 2014
Phillipi settlement battle highlights housing problems
On 7 and 8 January, the City of Cape Town’s Anti-Land Invasion Unit demolished more than 40 homes at the Marikana settlement in Philippi East. There has been ongoing conflict between the City and the residents who have settled on this plot of privately owned land just off Symphony Way.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
Feature | 15 January 2014
Rent a crowd protest - an attack on media freedom
Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois was fired by Iqbal Surve, executive chairperson of the Sekunjalo Consortium, the day after Mandela’s death.
Shireen Mukadam
Opinion | 18 December 2013
Cape Times demo: plot thickens
It now appears that it was the fairly recently ordained pastor and political changeling, Wesley Douglas, who was one of the organisers of the group that gatecrashed a Right to Know (R2K) protest in Cape Town yesterday.
Terry Bell
News | 18 December 2013
Goons attempt to disrupt protest for press freedom
The saga of the Cape Times and South Africa’s Independent Newspapers (INL) group plumbed new depths of farce this afternoon (December 17) when a rent-a-crowd arrived in the city to support the putative new owner, Iqbal Survé.
Terry Bell
News | 17 December 2013
Week in political activism
This week we have reports from Lawyers for Human Rights about refugees being prevented from informal trading, and SERI who successfully represented Johannesburg's informal traders at the Constitutional Court.
Compiled by Brent Meersman
News | 12 December 2013