July 27

• South Africa: Site B's Vetkoek Hub

  Makazi's take away is a busy shack that constantly has a line of customers waiting outside to be served their vetkoek (fat cakes). Read more »

• South Africa: Immigrants At Work - the Parow Flea Market

  Cameroon-born Desmond Chia is a stall owner at the Parow flea market. The harsh weather Cape Town has recently seen makes it hard for him to run his business. Read more »

• South Africa: A Spaza Shop 'Just to Keep Busy'

  For most people, opening a spaza shop is a small business venture to earn an income. For Richard Handel, it is just to keep busy. Read more »

• South Africa: Gay and Lesbian Activists Protest Holomisa's Call for Reviews

  Last Wednesday, gay and lesbian rights organisations handed a memorandum to the ANC Western Cape representative, Songezo Mjongile. Read more »

• South Africa: Immigrants At Work - IT Repair Shop in Gardens

  Admire Siya is just 25-years old and from Zimbabwe. He has set up an IT shop in his home in Gardens. Read more »

• South Africa: Immigrants At Work - Making Ends Meet As a Cab Driver

  Tinashe Nhidza is a 35-year-old Zimbabwean taxi cab driver operating in Cape Town. Read more »

• South Africa: Feeding Her Family With a Meat Stand

  Nonyameko Sowazi, also affectionately known to her customers as "Madlamini," runs a "binnegoed" stand at the bottom of the Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha. Read more »

• South Africa: From Bad Boy to Legitimate Business Owner - the Corner Lounge Story [analysis]

  Nkululeko Tuntubele is the owner of Corner Lounge, a cosy bar-lounge in the hub of Gugulethu at NY 138. Officially opened this year on 31 March, the lounge is a container... Read more »

July 20

• South Africa: Grow Academy Bringing Communities Into the Digital Age

  On Monday, a group of unemployed school-leavers gathered in Athlone for GROW Academy. This is an initiative by organisations in Cape Town to give people basic information... Read more »

• South Africa: Zimbabwean Woman Murdered On Her Way to Bellville

  The brother of a Zimbabwean woman who was murdered last week is accusing her ex-boyfriend in a case that highlights violence against women. Read more »

• South Africa: Activists Battle Novartis Over Cancer Drug

  South African activists are campaigning to get a multinational pharmaceutical company, Novartis, to drop a court case against the Indian government. Read more »

• South Africa: Township Houses Falling Apart

  Delft residents are left in the cold this winter as the recent bad weather is causing their houses to fall apart. Read more »

• South Africa: Khayelitsha's First Coffee Shop Opened

  What do a fireman, an employee at a towel factory and a coffee barista have in common? They all make up the Department of Coffee (DOC), a new intimate coffee shop in Khayelitsha. Read more »

July 12

• South Africa: Mitchells Plain Soup Kitchen Continues Murdered Man's Legacy

  Every Wednesday in Hyde Park, Mitchells Plain, a group of people both young and old gather outside a one bedroom house waiting to be given a bowl of hot soup and a slice of bread.... Read more »

• South Africa: Somali Migrants Tell Their Stories

  Abdirahaman Abdiwali, a leader in the local Somali community, explained some the difficulties Somalis face to GroundUp. Read more »

• South Africa: Man in Gugs Flat - 'Living Here Is Not Life'

  Kholekile Tisana is partially blind and has lived in a block of flats called Somafu in Gugulethu for the past year. He says living there is the same as living in a shack. Read more »

• South Africa: Winter in the Shacks of Khayelitsha

  The rain makes life even more difficult for the residents of Taiwan in Khayelitsha. Read more »

• South Africa: Khayelitsha Leader Murdered

  Mnoneleli Ngubo, a leading member of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, was stabbed to death in his Khayelitsha home on Tuesday 3 July. Read more »

July 5

• South Africa: Taking Cape Town's Transport Into the Future - an Interview With Brett Herron

  GroundUp interviewed Mayoral Committee (Mayco) Member responsible for Transport, Roads and Stormwater, Brett Herron, about the city's transport system plans. Read more »

June 27

• South Africa: Nyanga Housing Delays Anger Residents

  "Every time we think we are getting somewhere, we just go right back to square one." These are the words of Thembisa Maso, a KTC resident and mother of three who has been waiting... Read more »

• South Africa: Dutch Family's 16 Year Struggle With Home Affairs

  A Dutch family that has been living in South Africa since 1996 has been struggling with the Department of Home Affairs for 16 years to live and work legally in South Africa. Now a... Read more »

• South Africa: Controversy Over Hospital Closure

  The Western Cape Department of Health intends to demolish GF Jooste Hospital and spend R550 million reconstructing it. This means the hospital will close. Read more »

June 22

• South Africa: Former Prisoner Gets TB and Takes Government to Court

  Dudley Lee was arrested in 1999 and spent the next four years in Pollsmoor Prison, while he was tried for fraud and other financial crimes. About 70 court appearances later, he was... Read more »

• South Africa: Court Case Highlights TB in Prisons

  A man who contracted tuberculosis (TB) while in prison is in a long-running court battle with the Department of Correctional Services. Read more »

• South Africa: Medicine and Vaccine Shortages Across Country

  There have been many media reports of shortages of medicines to treat AIDS over the last few weeks. But the medicine shortages go beyond antiretrovirals and there are even... Read more »