Government
How Virginia de Azevedo has improved our health
Dr Virginia de Azevedo, the City Health Manager in Khayelitsha, has become a target of SAMWU strike action which affects ten City of Cape Town run clinics in Khayelitsha.
Lynne Wilkinson
Opinion | 7 May 2015
SAMWU protests against “racist, and “corrupt, City managers
Protesters ululated, clapped hands and blew vuvuzelas in the Cape Town Civic Center, when Mayor Patricia de Lille promised to investigate allegations of racism by the City of Cape Town’s line managers.
Nombulelo Damba and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 6 May 2015
Dying and the law: the Dignity SA case explained
Yesterday Judge Fabricius of the Pretoria High Court handed down an order in the case of Robin Stransham-Ford.
Timothy Fish Hodgson
News | 1 May 2015
More toilets will save South Africa money
For over five years, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town has called for expanding access to safe and clean sanitation facilities in Khayelitsha and other townships in the city. Despite the overwhelming need for such services, the municipal government has yet to fulfill its duties to provide them at the requisite scale.
Gregg Gonsalves, Edward Kaplan and David Paltiel
Opinion | 29 April 2015
Maggots, bodies and stench: what Khayelitsha residents say about their toilets
Last Thursday the Social Justice Coalition handed over 500 submissions, written by Khayelitsha residents, on the municipal budget to the City of Cape Town. GroundUp examined a sample of them to find out what residents are asking for.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 29 April 2015
Waiting for a Home Affairs document: seven years and counting
A 32-year-old Burundian refugee, Furaha (not her real name) has been waiting since 2008 for her refugee identity document.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 29 April 2015
Old Mutual drags its heels on Khayelitsha housing development
Old Mutual has not kept a promise to build more than 500 low cost houses and a shopping centre in Khayelitsha, though this was a condition of a 2008 deal with the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 April 2015
Khayelitsha residents hand over 600 submissions on City’s draft budget
About 150 Social Justice Coalition (SJC) members, supported by Ndifuna Ukwazi, formed a queue behind a toilet outside the Civic Centre and chanted struggle songs on Thursday, as they waited for their individual submissions on the City of Cape Town's draft budget for the 2015/2016 financial year to be collected.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 23 April 2015
Call for parliament to sign anti-xenophobia pledge
About 100 people marched against xenophobia in Cape Town yesterday. The protest was organised by several civil society organisation including PASSOP and Sonke Gender Justice.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 23 April 2015