Society

Cape Town women’s group pools money to build houses

It’s a stokvel with a difference

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Brief | 19 March 2019

Serving hungry people for over 80 years

The Service Dining Rooms provides over 3,500 meals a week

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News | 18 December 2018

Mitchells Plain model set for Vegas

Teenager with Down syndrome has already won two awards

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News | 30 November 2018

Transgender discrimination is worse if you are poor

Hormone therapy and surgery are expensive and out of reach for many transpeople

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News | 26 October 2018

Day care centre rebuilt after fire – for the fifth time

“I just need the municipality to assist me rebuild,” says principal

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News | 19 October 2018

Sheep shearing shed used as a day care centre for 50 children

Community desperate for funds to finish building a proper centre

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Brief | 2 October 2018

Women create refuge for abused people living with disability

“In one house a child was tied to a fridge”

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News | 7 September 2018

Woman opens her home to abandoned children

Nomtha Mboneli is caring for ten children in her village in the rural Eastern Cape

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Brief | 6 September 2018

Gogos get tent for shelter

Avbob Funeral Services says it will keep on supporting Grace Mnikathi’s sanctuary for the elderly

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Brief | 17 August 2018

Youth give blind woman’s house a makeover on Mandela Day

“My soul is very happy today. These youth are following the good example of Madiba.”

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Brief | 18 July 2018

IN PHOTOS: Capetonians observe Ramadan

Muslim community end each day’s fast with prayer and delicious food

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Photo Essay | 15 June 2018

Never too old to compete for gold

Thousands join the Cape Town Games for Older Living

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Photo Essay | 3 April 2018

School children recycle waste for food

“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader

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News | 3 April 2018

Call for action against abusive churches

Speak the Truth marches in Braamfontein

By GroundUp Reporter

News | 15 March 2018

Living in the hell of Whoonga Park

Murder, rape, crime, homelessness, abuse by police … daily life for whoonga users

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News | 6 February 2018

In photos: Cape Town’s favourite public space

Thousands visit Sea Point pool, one of the few municipal pools operating during the drought

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Photo Essay | 8 January 2018