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No lectures for nearly two months now at Gqeberha college
Education
No lectures for nearly two months now at Gqeberha college

Joseph Chirume 2 days

The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an attempt by Noordhoek environmentalists to set aside approval for a road link in an area where the endangered Western Leopard Toad breeds. Archive photo: John Yeld / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Judge rules for 'road' in legal clash with 'toads'

John Yeld 2 days

Learners and teachers march for safer schools in Nelson Mandela Bay
Education
Learners and teachers march for safer schools in Nelson Mandela Bay

Joseph Chirume 3 days

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year
Education
Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Lucas Nowicki 18 Apr 2024

The Carbon Majors list of the companies responsible for four fifths of the world’s CO2 emissions includes Sasol. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Sasol makes the world CO2 emissions blacklist

Liezl Human 17 Apr 2024

Reclaim the City demonstrated outside the Western Cape High Court in 2020, calling for the Tafelberg site to be used as affordable housing. Archive photo: James Stent / GroundUp
Legal
Housing activists lose Tafelberg case

Tania Broughton 15 Apr 2024

The Alexkor coffer-dam wall between two dams at high tide. Photos from a Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment report titled: “Enforcement: In Loco Inspection Report – The salt/tidal flats of the Orange River Mouth Ramsar site”, published 28 January 2020.
ESG & Sustainability
Alexkor vs Creecy in environment court battle

John Yeld 12 Apr 2024

Assaults on learners: Appeal court says tougher sanctions must apply to teachers
Education
Assaults on learners: Appeal court says tougher sanctions must apply to teachers

Tania Broughton 10 Apr 2024

Many non-profit organisations in Gauteng fear for their future in the face of looming funding cuts by the Gauteng Department of Social Development. Photo: Creative Commons Pixabay
ESG & Sustainability
Centre for quadriplegics may have to close if Gauteng funding cuts are implemented

Daniel Steyn 28 Mar 2024

Cape Town school in the dark because it owes thousands to Eskom
Education
Cape Town school in the dark because it owes thousands to Eskom

Marecia Damons 27 Mar 2024

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Property
Hundreds of people stake out plots for houses on empty land in Nelson Mandela Bay

25 Mar 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photos: Dan Callister
ESG & Sustainability
Minister’s plan could wipe out African penguins, say scientists

John Yeld 25 Mar 2024

Years of protests pay off as Eastern Cape village gets new high school
Education
Years of protests pay off as Eastern Cape village gets new high school

Johnnie Isaac 19 Mar 2024

Nelson Mandela University workers march for higher salaries
Education
Nelson Mandela University workers march for higher salaries

Thamsanqa Mbovane 14 Mar 2024

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Marketing & Media
Google moves against notorious spam news website

Nathan Geffen 14 Mar 2024

Building of new classrooms at overcrowded Dunoon school stalled
Education
Building of new classrooms at overcrowded Dunoon school stalled

Peter Luhanga 13 Mar 2024

Recyclable items collected and sorted at the African Reclaimers Organisation’s sorting centre are compressed using a baler machine before being sold to buy-back centres. Photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Waste pickers create their own recycling centre

Masego Mafata 12 Mar 2024

One of 16 local citizen scientists collects data from Mamelodi in Pretoria. The data collected from each site will help the City of Tshwane develop an effective plan to mitigate the effects of climate change. Photos: Jabulile Mbatha / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Volunteers collect data to mitigate effects of global heating in Tshwane

Jabulile Mbatha 11 Mar 2024

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Healthcare
Anti-vaxxers thrashed in court

Tania Broughton 11 Mar 2024

The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl
Marketing & Media
Google and Facebook are killing local news

Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl 8 Mar 2024

Wits students stage ‘sleepover’ protests
Education
Wits students stage ‘sleepover’ protests

Jabulile Mbatha 7 Mar 2024

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has turned to the Constitutional Court in his bid to appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment that found the process he used to end the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme was neither fair nor lawful. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp
Legal
Home Affairs minister takes Zimbabwean permit battle to the Constitutional Court

Tania Broughton 6 Mar 2024

Small-scale fishers could be allowed to catch new species
Agriculture
Small-scale fishers could be allowed to catch new species

Liezl Human 5 Mar 2024

Two Cape High Court judges had to carefully consider parts of speech to decide whether a popular Western Cape phrase violated a court order. Archive photo: Liezl Human / GroundUp
Legal
Judges grapple with use of “ma se p...”

Tania Broughton 29 Feb 2024

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Healthcare
Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

Silver Sibiya 28 Feb 2024

Makhanda students burn paper in protest against NSFAS
Education
Makhanda students burn paper in protest against NSFAS

Loyiso Dyongman 26 Feb 2024

The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme will not end any time soon, following a Supreme Court of Appeal dismissal of the Minister of Home Affairs’ request for leave to appeal. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp
Legal
SCA dismisses bid to appeal Zim permits ruling

Tania Broughton 23 Feb 2024

A case before the Constitutional Court could introduce a new era of customary law. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp
Legal
Limpopo royal family feud could change customary law

Anton van Zyl 22 Feb 2024

Nelson Mandela University students block campus entrance over unpaid NSFAS funds
Education
Nelson Mandela University students block campus entrance over unpaid NSFAS funds

Joseph Chirume 22 Feb 2024

Education department’s electricity cut off for owing millions of rands
Education
Education department’s electricity cut off for owing millions of rands

Thamsanqa Mbovane 20 Feb 2024

More than 200-million litres of untreated or partially treated sewage is released into False Bay daily. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Failing sewage plants continue to pollute False Bay

Steve Kretzmann 16 Feb 2024

NSFAS has a horrible day in Parliament
Education
NSFAS has a horrible day in Parliament

Marecia Damons 15 Feb 2024

Members of the University of Cape Town Employees Union (UCTEU) are on strike. They are demanding a 1.5% increase to 2023 salaries and a 7.5% increase to 2024 salaries, among other demands. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks /GroundUp
Education
Waive 'no work no pay' principle, say striking UCT workers

Liezl Human 14 Feb 2024

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Healthcare
Cathcart Hospital rumours spark week of protests

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 13 Feb 2024

Students sleep on the floor at CPUT amid housing funding blunder
Education
Students sleep on the floor at CPUT amid housing funding blunder

Ella Morrison 12 Feb 2024

Louis Trichardt union members who protested the appointment of their municipality’s Chief Financial Officer have been vindicated. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp
Legal
High Court finds appointment of Makhado CFO unlawful

Tania Broughton and Bernard Chiguvare 12 Feb 2024

More than two million litres of sieved raw sewage is pumped out to sea off Camps Bay every day. This is one of three marine outfalls, the other two being at Greenpoint and Hout Bay. The City has commissioned a study to determine the costs of treating the sewage first, or piping it to existing wastewater treatment works or further out to sea. Photo: Steve Kretzmann / Groundup
ESG & Sustainability
Cape Town’s ocean-bound sewage options unveiled

Steve Kretzmann 9 Feb 2024

UCT strike begins – support staff demand 7.5% increase for 2024
Education
UCT strike begins – support staff demand 7.5% increase for 2024

Liezl Human 8 Feb 2024

At least 12 fishing companies are taking the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) minister to court over the commercial fishing rights allocation process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
Legal
Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Liezl Human 6 Feb 2024

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Property
Housing project for 500 Dunoon families put on hold

Peter Luhanga 2 Feb 2024

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Healthcare
Officials raise alarm over hiring freeze at Western Cape’s largest hospitals

Daniel Steyn 2 Feb 2024

LaundReCycle, a unique, self-sufficient laundry has been successfully running at the Streetscapes Urban Farm in Cape Town. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
ESG & Sustainability
Laundry offers free showers to homeless people

Ashraf Hendricks 30 Jan 2024

Many Cape Town journalists attended the vigil. Source: GroundUp
Marketing & Media
South African media community mourns journalists killed in Gaza

GroundUp Staff 29 Jan 2024

Thousands of unplaced high school learners in the Western Cape
Education
Thousands of unplaced high school learners in the Western Cape

Ella Morrison, Kimberly Mutandiro, Joseph Bracken 24 Jan 2024

Education department blames transport department for scholar transport fiasco
Education
Education department blames transport department for scholar transport fiasco

Joseph Chirume 24 Jan 2024

About 50 workers, mostly forklift drivers, are taking Heineken Beverages to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
HR & Management
Workers take newly merged Heineken-Distell to the CCMA

Liezl Human 19 Jan 2024

About 700,000 IDs have been blocked by the Department of Home Affairs without due process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
Legal
Home Affairs may no longer block your ID on a whim, court rules

Tania Broughton 17 Jan 2024

The South African Post Office is bleeding jobs. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
HR & Management
Union vows to fight "slaughter" of Post Office jobs

Steve Kretzmann 17 Jan 2024

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Marketing & Media
4 resources for journalists from the world’s top investigative conference

Daneel Knoetze 3 Jan 2024

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Healthcare
One of Cape Town’s few free rehab centres has closed its doors to adults

27 Dec 2023

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