Jean Redpath, a criminologist at the University of Western Cape, was the first person to testify in the second phase of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, which started at Lookout Hill this morning. Redpath argued that the formula used to calculate police resource allocation is irrational.
Adam Armstrong
News | 12 May 2014
Tenants in Victoria Court, who are mostly immigrants, are unhappy with the prepaid water system installed without their knowledge in April. They say they never signed a new rental agreement or agreed to pay for water on top of their rent.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 9 May 2014
Rowan du Preez was no longer a police informer at the time of his death last year, police sergeant Andile Tshila told the court last week during the trial of Social Justice Coalition leader Angy Peter.
Simone Haysom
News | 6 May 2014
The basic demand of May Day was for an eight-hour working day âeight for work, eight for leisure and eight for sleep. It is something we still have to achieve, not just in South Africa, but in many other countries.
Terry Bell
Analysis | 1 May 2014
Residents of Crossroads and Nyanga have slammed Eskom for not giving them any notice of power cuts which lasted several hours yesterday. But Eskom says the cuts were unplanned and residents could not be notified in advance.
Pharie Sefali
News | 30 April 2014
While celebrations took place all over the country this week, some young people in Cape Townâs townships chose to spend Freedom Day another way.
Pharie Sefali
Opinion | 30 April 2014
Following a campaign in Constantia earlier this week, the Sesâkhona Peopleâs Rights Movement took their protest against portable toilets to Bishopscourt today.
Johnnie Isaac and Nathan Geffen
Feature | 30 April 2014
The trial of Social Justice Coalition leader Angy Peter and her husband Isaac Mbadu is continuing in the Cape High Court. Peter and Mbadu are on trial, with Azola Dayimani and Christopher Dina, for the murder by ânecklacingâ of Rowan du Preez (also known as Siphiwo Mbevu) in October 2012.
Simone Haysom
News | 30 April 2014
Aubrey â âDr Shockâ â Levin, the South African army psychiatrist accused of torturing gays and dissidents in the apartheid military, has started a five-year jail term in Canada.
Terry Bell
News | 30 April 2014
When David Olyn was tortured and murdered in the idyllic Western Cape town of Ceres just because he was gay, the town's residents came together to fight homophobia.
GroundUp Staff
News | 25 April 2014
Representatives of political parties got a grilling from UCT students last night at a debate on the university campus.
Pharie Sefali
News | 24 April 2014
âLack of access to water and sanitation is an insult to human dignity,â emphasised the Social Justice Coalition (SJC)in a National Sanitation Summit held at Community House in Salt River yesterday.
Bulelani Ngovi
News | 24 April 2014
In an interview with GroundUp, former TAC leader and current director of Ndifuna Ukwazi Zackie Achmat said this time he will not be voting for the ANC in the 7 May elections.
GroundUp Staff
News | 24 April 2014
Political parties participated in a discussion yesterday at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) constituency after 20 years of democracy.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 24 April 2014
Nyanga residents are looking for a 20 year old man accused of stealing a plasma TV from his neighbour and said to be a rapist and a gangster.
Pharie Sefali
News | 23 April 2014
The trial of Angy Peter and Isaac Mbadu continued last week after a two week recess. Peter and Mbadu are on trial, along with two others, Azola Dayimani and Christopher Dina, for the murder by ânecklacingâ of Rowan du Preez in October 2012.
Simone Haysom
News | 23 April 2014