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Cape Town fintech startup Lumepay raises $6m to build African payments network

Technology

Cape Town fintech startup Lumepay raises $6m to build African payments network

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A recent Labour Court ruling is a setback for the Agricultural, Food and Allied Democratic Workers’ Union’s bid to halt the loss of jobs at Premier’s Tulbagh fruit cannery. Archive photo: Greg Dor / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Labour Court rejects union bid to stop job losses at Tulbagh cannery

Greg Dor 2 days

Blikkiesdorp in Delft was built by the City of Cape Town in 2007 as a temporary home for people evicted in the city. Many are still there nearly two decades later. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Land & Property Law

SAHRC takes City of Cape Town to court over land sales

Matthew Hirsch 6 Nov 2026

Some Sassa beneficiaries in Umlazi now have to spend time and money to travel to offices like the Durban Station branch in the city centre after their office was shut down last week. Photo: Joseph Bracken

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa’s Umlazi office declared unsafe, shuts down

Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Joseph Bracken 2 Nov 2026

Source: Sechaba Mokhethi/GroundUp. The Katse Dam, which provides water to South Africa, is one of several dams whose construction saw extensive loss of resources for several Lesotho communities.

Construction & Engineering

Lesotho dam authority must pay M90m in long-overdue compensation

Sechaba Mokheth 2 Nov 2026

Five Western Cape fruit producers are asking the High Court to force Premier to take their fruit for the coming harvest. Archive photo: Greg Dor / GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Fruit farmers take Premier to court

Greg Dor 29 Oct 2026

The entrance to the illegally constructed Goats Window Luxury Safari Lodge in the foothills of the Riviersonderend mountains near Bonnievale. Photos: John Yeld / GroundUp

Environmental Law

Luxury lodge fined R15m for flouting environmental laws

John Yeld 29 Oct 2026

Rhodes University is working with the Department of Water and Sanitation to investigate whether its internal water system is the source of the outbreak. Archive photo: Steve Krentzmann

Infectious Diseases

Rhodes University launches probe into water after gastro outbreak

Laney van Wyk 29 Oct 2026

The Johannesburg Labour Court has set aside a CCMA ruling because the commissioner cited a non-existent judgment and failed to verify the source. Illustration: Bronwyn Webb / GroundUp

Labour Law

Labour Court slams CCMA commissioner for relying on AI hallucination

Tania Broughton 27 Oct 2026

Source: GroundUp/Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik. A second contractor has left the site of the Eyabantu Senior Secondary School, a project launched in 2019.

Construction & Engineering

Learners wait seven years for R39m school

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 23 Oct 2026

Tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir are arguably the three most important medicines in South Africa. Archive photo: GroundUp Staff

HIV/AIDS

Cipla wins court fight over HIV pill tender

Tania Broughton 23 Oct 2026

Activists went to Parliament on Wednesday to put forward demands ahead of Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s mini-budget announcement. Photo: Abonge Chiya

Health & Social Welfare

SRD grant extended for another year, minister announces

GroundUp Staff 22 Oct 2026

The Supreme Court of Appeal has slammed the Department of Social Development’s “cultural” guidelines for adoption. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Family Law

Mothers win case against “cultural” adoption guidelines

Tania Broughton 21 Oct 2026

Source: GroundUp/Matthew Hirsch.

Affordable & Social Housing

Families to return to Bishopscourt, 60 years after forced removals

Matthew Hirsch 20 Oct 2026

Thousands of teachers in the Western Cape have been trained to teach arithmetic in isiXhosa. Photo: Sindisiwe Tshona / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Western Cape schools to teach maths in isiXhosa from next year

Sindisiwe Tshona 14 Oct 2026

Five years after being fired from Prasa, Martha Ngoye, former legal head, is still fighting to be reinstated. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Law Practice

Fired Prasa whistleblowers get backing in ConCourt

Tania Broughton 12 Oct 2026

Children are dying in pain because our palliative care is so poor, damning report finds. Photo: (public domain)

Palliative care

Children are dying in pain because our palliative care is so poor

Sean Christie 12 Oct 2026

Qualified artisans across South Africa have been waiting years for Red Seal certificates from the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Higher Education

Artisans forced to wait years for Red Seal certificates

Alice Scott 6 Oct 2026

Image credit: , , via Wikimedia Commons

Food, Water & Energy Security

Durban and Joburg worst hit by water outages

Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff. 2 Oct 2026

According to Cape Town’s Inner City Local Spatial Development Framework, only 30% of apartments or houses in the inner city are available for long-term leases, or occupied by their owners. The remainder “are either hotel managed or Airbnb”. Archive photo: Brent Meersman / GroundUp

Residential Property

Airbnb by-law doesn’t do enough to address Cape Town’s housing crisis

Leila Kidson 1 Oct 2026

People living in these informal homes erected on Transnet land in Woodstock, Cape Town, say they have been living there for more than a decade. Archive photo: Matthew Hirsch / GroundUp

Land & Property Law

Woodstock land occupiers lose bid to appeal eviction

Matthew Hirsch 30 Sep 2026

DA to report e-Panic data breach to Information Regulator

Cybersecurity

DA to report e-Panic data breach to Information Regulator

Joel Cedras 29 Sep 2026

“We were never consulted” – Cape Town residents challenge Equinix data centre

Data & Analytics

“We were never consulted” – Cape Town residents challenge Equinix data centre

Alice Scott 28 Sep 2026

Fuel hike puts road freight under renewed cost pressure

Logistics & Transport

Fuel hike puts road freight under renewed cost pressure

Gavin Kelly 2 Sep 2026

5 reasons Up The Creek is more than just a music festival

Events

5 reasons Up The Creek is more than just a music festival

Evan-Lee Courie 19 Aug 2026

South African retailers face growing short interest and squeeze risk

Retail

South African retailers face growing short interest and squeeze risk

Casey Sprake 10 Jul 2026

SA startup Float sets sights on UK growth

SMEs

SA startup Float sets sights on UK growth

8 Jul 2026

Source: Supplied. George Tsinonis; Head: Investment Analytics, RisCura.

Insurance & Actuarial

Benchmark choice can reshape African equity performance, RisCura finds

6 Jul 2026

Anton van Heerden, CEO of DNA EOR

Trends

#BizTrends2026 | DNA EOR's Anton van Heerden: 8 global hiring shifts HR can’t ignore in 2026

Anton van Heerden 5 Feb 2026

Beyond the agency: Why your billing model, not your marketing, is stalling growth

Marketing

Beyond the agency: Why your billing model, not your marketing, is stalling growth

Warren Stear, Issued by Offernet 15 Oct 2025

Float lands R46m funding to scale SA operations

Funding

Float lands R46m funding to scale SA operations

10 Sep 2025

Peach Payments launches POS terminal, Digit Pro

Banking & Finance

Peach Payments launches POS terminal, Digit Pro

27 Jun 2025

Winners announced at Africa Tech Week 2025

Events & Conferencing

Winners announced at Africa Tech Week 2025

Issued by Topco Media 6 Jun 2025

Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 finalists announced – celebrate innovation in style!

Events & Conferencing

Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 finalists announced – celebrate innovation in style!

Issued by Topco Media 29 May 2025

Scientists at the University of Pretoria have found that fresh vegetables are being contaminated by disease-causing bacteria through irrigation from polluted rivers and boreholes. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Food, Water & Energy Security

South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk

Steve Kretzmann 26 May 2025

Source: © 123rf Mark Baldwin, CEO of , a web design and digital marketing agency, weighs in on the biggest social media platform rebrands of all time

Branding

Social media rebrands: The failure - X, the insipid - Meta and the success - Instagram

Mark Baldwin 15 Apr 2025

#CreativeCircle: Is South African design lacking consciousness?

Design

#CreativeCircle: Is South African design lacking consciousness?

Shane de Lange 24 Feb 2025

South Africa's best tech startups for 2024 announced

Awards

South Africa's best tech startups for 2024 announced

Imran Salie 27 Nov 2024

Source: iStock.

Finance

The shift from RMS to RM: What it means for South Africa’s debit orders

2 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. African Bank chief executive officer, Kennedy Bungane.

Banking

R600m to be paid to funders of legacy African Bank

11 Apr 2024

BNPL startup Float secures R208m funding from Standard Bank

Funding

BNPL startup Float secures R208m funding from Standard Bank

20 Mar 2024

Source: Supplied. Avsharn Bachoo is the group chief technology director at Afrocentric Group.

Trends

#BizTrends2024: The only constant is change - healthcare technology trends

Avsharn Bachoo 16 Jan 2024