Society
Khayelitsha residents on the O’Regan/Pikoli Commission
The O'Regan/Pikoli Commision of Inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha is to go ahead after a Constitutional Court ruling last week. GroundUp went to the streets of Khayelitsha to gauge people’s reaction to the ruling.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Opinion | 9 October 2013
Soweto Pride claims the space
Hundreds of people gathered at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village in Soweto for the ninth annual Soweto Pride march on Saturday September 28 2013. The organisers, the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), say that the march is a platform for LGBTI people from Soweto and the surrounding townships and cities to reclaim public spaces.
Roger Young
News | 2 October 2013
What to do in the school holidays?
Over the school holidays GroundUp went to canvass various school children about their activities.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 2 October 2013
Soweto Pride claims the space
Hundreds of people gathered at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village in Soweto for the ninth annual Soweto Pride march on Saturday September 28 2013. The organisers, the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), say that the march is a platform for LGBTI people from Soweto and the surrounding townships and cities to reclaim public spaces.
Roger Young
News | 2 October 2013
Local artists support Zimbabwean musicians
On 29 September, Baran's Restaurant hosted an “African heritage fundraising show” for an African soul reggae band called The Zealots.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
News | 1 October 2013
Renowned Palestinian poet performs in Khayelitsha
On 24 September 2013, Remi Kanazi, a world-renowned Palestinian-American performance poet, gave a performance of his poetry in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Kanazi’s poetry covers a range of topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamophobia and imperialism.
Staff writer
News | 30 September 2013
Taste of my heritage
NdinguMambhathane, uTshaya, uMxesibe, uMgxubane, Khandanyawana, uMam’Khuma, Nxele, Bhaca, isizukulwana sika Ntswayibana noBhakaqana.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Opinion | 23 September 2013
Ties that bind
For me heritage goes deeper than the colour of my skin. It starts from the very beginning, my birth.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Opinion | 23 September 2013
This story is called…
A little north west of the road which runs from Ixopo into the hills of KwaZulu-Natal immortalised by Alan Paton, is a quiet, slow-moving enclave. The Kamberg Valley, just 78 kilometres east of Lesotho, kneels before the Drakensberg mountain range, crimped by the wind and harshness of the rocky land over millions of years to coalesce into a silencing, breathless serenity.
Greg Solik
Opinion | 23 September 2013