July 02

• South Africa: "I Need an Electric Wheelchair"

  "I'm Selina Lehloo from Khuma. I'm using a wheelchair. I was born like this. I'm 25-years-old. I failed matric in 2011, but I didn't give up". Read more »

July 01

• South Africa: President Obama, We're Not in Kansas Anymore

  I have examined myself and cannot find an anti-American bone. I don't feel conflicted at the fact that I prefer hamburgers to kneidlach soup or cholent or pap. Read more »

June 26

• South Africa: 100 Years Since the Native Land Act - an Interview With Ben Cousins [interview]

  It is the 100th anniversary of the Natives Land Act. We spoke to Ben Cousins, a professor at the University of Western Cape and founder of the Institute for Poverty, Land and... Read more »

• South Africa: New Efforts for a United Rural Movement

  Last Saturday, after three days of discussion, 300 members of multiple social movements marched in Cape Town and delivered a letter to the South African Government about land... Read more »

• South Africa: Sick Janitor Claims City Endangered Health

  Monica Gotshana, is a single mother of five children from Khayelitsha's Site B. Today is her last day working as a janitor for the City of Cape Town because her six month contract... Read more »

• South Africa: Gugulethu Primary School Invigorates Classroom Learning

  The word Lwazi means knowledge, and it seems that Lwazi Public Primary School in Gugulethu is appropriately named. Read more »

June 25

• South Africa: Toilets - What's All the Flush About? a Groundup Q&a

  Shit is at the centre of Cape Town's recent political conflict. Today the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is marching to the Mayor's office and the Human Rights Commission to demand... Read more »

• South Africa: Activists to De Lille - Give Us Toilet Plan in Two Weeks

  More than 300 people marched in the Cape Town city centre today to demand better sanitation in informal settlements. Read more »

• South Africa: Petition Calls for More Time to Comment On Police Green Paper

  Last Friday, 27 civil society organizations signed a letter directed at Ms Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane, of the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service. The organizations requested more... Read more »

• South Africa: Immigrants Accuse Cops of Abuse As Their Businesses Are Destroyed

  Immigrants who protested outside Kraaifontein Police station on Thursday 20 June claim that police officers assigned to the Wallacedene area yelled offensive statements at them.... Read more »

June 24

• South Africa: Heading for the 2014 (e)lection

  E-tolling, excrement and expanded public works. Apart from starting with the letter "E" they appear at first sight to have nothing in common. But with the country heading toward... Read more »

June 19

• South Africa: Equal Education Vs Motshekga Gets Nasty

  The struggle between Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, and activist organisation Equal Education, is getting nasty. The Department has accused EE of using whites to... Read more »

• South Africa: Radio Show Gives Awards to Young People On 16 June

  Children's Radio Foundation (CRF) held, what it says is the first youth radio award in Cape Town on 16 June. Read more »

• South Africa: Myciti Should Not Be Compared to Golden Arrow - a Response to Martin Eichhorn

  This is a response by the Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater to an article published on GroundUp by Martin Eichhorn. Read more »

• South Africa: Transformation By Quota Is Barking Mad

  Jack Lewis argues that government's transformation plan is based on identity politics and is misguided. He asks people on the political left to speak out against it. Read more »

• South Africa: Declaration of Economic War in South Africa

  For all the sound and fury of the current fight between poultry producers and meat importers, their dispute may turn out to be only a minor skirmish in what promises to be a war of... Read more »

June 18

• South Africa: Immigrant Businessman Launches a Gospel Album

  29 year old Prince Ikenna, a native of Nigeria who set up a successful salon and cosmetics business in South Africa in 2010, launched a new gospel album, "In his presence", at Salt... Read more »

June 14

• South Africa: Fransman's Inexcusable Behaviour

  This was originally published as a letter in the Cape Times on 14 June 2013. Read more »

June 13

• South Africa: Plumber Who Cycles to His Clients

  While many South Africans are enduring overcrowded taxis or ever-increasing rail fares on their daily commute, Wilfred "Jack" Delekile, a 60 year old plumber from Khayelitsha, is... Read more »

June 12

• South Africa: Organisation Helps Young Prisoners Fix Their Lives

  The South African Government hasn't created effective reintegration programs for former prisoners. Young In Prison (YIP) is an organization that addresses the lack of programs for... Read more »

• South Africa: Bhisho High Court to Hear Urgent Case Against Motshekga

  Equal Education (EE) filed papers on Monday to re-open the case against the Minister for not publishing minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure. Read more »

• South Africa: Family Beats Up Their Gay Tenant

  Albert Kafuka heard his landlady's nephew shout, "I wonder why mum allows these ... sexual animals to stay in the house and bring in their dirty behaviours." Kafuka, who is gay,... Read more »

• South Africa: Hope for Two Zambian Men Accused of Gay Sex

  On 10 and 11 June, the fourth round in the trial of two Zambian men who are charged with having "carnal knowledge [of each other] against the order of nature" took place. Read more »

• South Africa: From Somali "Blast Furnace" to South African "Frying Pan"

  Somalis marched to Parliament on 7 June in response to xenophobic violence against Somali refugees. About 500 people participated. Read more »

• South Africa: Why Double Digit Pay Rises Are Justified

  The annual wage bargaining season -- erroneously labelled the "strike season" -- is upon us. Workers around the country, through their unions and in bargaining councils and... Read more »