GroundUp (Cape Town)
A community journalist project reporting from South Africa's townships, mostly on health.
Website: http://www.groundup.org.za
February 22
South Africa: Education Department Is 'Showing Us the Middle Finger'
Hundreds of parents and their supporters marched through Uitenhage on Thursday to protest the conditions at three schools: Gamble Street Secondary School, Winterberg Primary and… Read more »
South Africa: Khayelitsha Residents Protest Against Sky High Water Bills
People outraged by their water bills blocked Spine Road and Ntlazane Crescent with burning tyres on Thursday. Residents of Ilitha Park and Phakamisa marched to the Khayelitsha… Read more »
South Africa: Forget Cigarette Smuggling. the Big Money Is in Stealing Coal
Coal theft siphons off billions of rands a year Read more »
Africa: Reconsidering South Africa's Approach to Waste Pickers
Waste pickers must be integrated into the formal waste management sector, says researcher Read more »
South Africa: Woman Told to Go to Zimbabwe to Get Her South African-Born Child's Visas
She faces prohibitive costs and may lose her job Read more »
South Africa: Eastern Cape Residents Must Make Way for Taxi Rank
Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved Read more »
February 21
South Africa: Workers in Finance Department Down Tools in Pietermaritzburg
Municipal employees say they work in terrible conditions and their office equipment and computers do not function Read more »
South Africa: Toilets Overflow and Taps Run Dry in Enkanini
Residents vow to continue protesting until the problem is fixed Read more »
South Africa: School Children Block Road to Alice
Five weeks into the school year and some classes have not started at Kuyasa Senior Secondary Read more »
South Africa: Stats SA's Confusing Mining Employment Statistics
Quarterly Labour Force Survey is the definitive source for most sectors, but not for mining Read more »
South Africa: Expropriation Bill - It's Rural Black People Who Are Most At Risk
Vulnerable communities have lost their land to the state and mining companies in the past decade Read more »
South Africa: Immigrants Targeted in Alexandra Housing Battle
On a stifling afternoon in Johannesburg's Alexandra township, Colletha*, a 45-year-old single mother, emerged from the back room of her small, meticulously ordered home with a slim… Read more »
February 20
South Africa: 'I Want All My Rapists to Be Arrested'
Babalwa* says she has been raped many times. Despite laying charges and even getting to court, the cases against her assailants have never gone anywhere. Read more »
South Africa: Mboweni Receives Workers' Demands Ahead of Budget Speech
Minister of Finance addressed marchers outside Parliament Read more »
South Africa: University Orders Students to Leave Residences Following Violent Protests
Some students say they will not leave Read more »
South Africa: Shackdwellers' Homes Destroyed On Valentine's Day
City of Cape Town officials destroyed shacks in Lotus settlement in Gugulethu on Valentine's Day. Councillor Malusi Booi, Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements, said the… Read more »
South Africa: 1,000 Families Move Onto Vacant Land As Mayor Freezes Evictions
A freeze on evictions has prompted hundreds of families to move onto open land in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, which they have named "Bobani Village" after Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor… Read more »
February 19
South Africa: Controversy Follows Colourful Australian Mining Magnate
Mark Caruso has made a handsome profit from South Africa's natural resources Read more »
South Africa: Farmers, Miners and Immigrants Battle for Land At Old Vlakfontein Mine
Moses Skosana has no title deed although he has been farming on the old mine compound for eight years Read more »
February 18
South Africa: CPUT Shuts Building After Flood
The Bellville campus student centre and parts of the administration building of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology had to close after it was flooded on Friday morning. The… Read more »
February 15
South Africa: Load Shedding Is Killing Small Businesses
"We are losing profits. Our clients are impatient and always in a hurry. They can't wait for about two and a half hours." Read more »
South Africa: Hundreds Left Homeless After Shack Fire in Dunoon
People have lost everything in the fire, but luckily there were no fatalities Read more »
South Africa: Nelisa Pambane Travels Hundreds of Kilometers to Sell Scrap Metal
"I may not be employed but I will never let my children and me starve." Read more »
South Africa: Buffalo City Mum On Its Shoddy Rdp Houses
Residents say they occupied the poorly built, incomplete houses after they had stood empty for six months Read more »
February 14
South Africa: Worker's Union Begins Nationwide Shutdown of Colleges
Shutdown "indefinite" until demands are met says national spokesperson Read more »
