Politics
Ses’khona and ANC trade accusations
Ses’khona Peoples Rights Movement has given the Western Cape regional office of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa seven working days to respond to its memorandum of demands.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 6 November 2014
Independent moves against Tony Weaver
Cape Times opinion page editor and veteran journalist Tony Weaver has been called before a disciplinary hearing after questioning a suggestion to crop out the logo of an advertiser from a news photo of a mall robbery.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 31 October 2014
etv: emails show who really runs the show
A credibility crisis in South Africa’s independent media is unfolding this week, writes Patrick Bond.
Patrick Bond
Analysis | 28 October 2014
Why I have resigned from the board of HCI
On 26 October, former Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan resigned from the board of Hosken Consolidated Investments, which owns etv. Here is her resignation letter.
Barbara Hogan
Opinion | 28 October 2014
Government Adjusts the Budget: Why it Matters for Service Delivery
The Adjustment Budget got very little coverage last week, but it is vital to understand it, explain Carlene van der Westhuizen and Thokozile Madonko.
Carlene van der Westhuizen and Thokozile Madonko
Analysis | 27 October 2014
Police: the facts behind the Commissioner’s “good story”
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Policing should ask police management some tough questions, writes Zackie Achmat in the second in a series of articles on policing.
Zackie Achmat
Opinion | 24 October 2014
Week in activism
This week we look at Greenpeace’s call on government to make Eskom comply with pollution laws, a report prepared for Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and a call for the Department of Home Affairs to recognise transgender rights.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 17 October 2014
Marking “Black Wednesday”: how to ensure media freedom
Sunday October 19 marks the commemoration of ‘Black Wednesday’, the day in 1977 that the apartheid government banned a range of publications sympathetic to the Black Consciousness Movement, and arrested a group of journalists and editors.
Mark Weinberg
Opinion | 17 October 2014
Lonmin’s Bermuda Triangle
Platinum mining giant Lonmin could have found the money to meet rock drillers’ pay demands instead of shifting funds between subsidiaries, possibly to avoid tax.
GroundUp staff
News | 16 October 2014