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Source: Peter Luhanga/GroundUp. An aerial view of Khayalam informal settlement in Khayelitsha beside the N2.

Affordable & Social Housing

What Cape Town is spending on homes, roads and the N2 wall

GroundUp Staff and Peter Luhanga 25 Mar 2026

#BestofBiz 2025: Property

Property

#BestofBiz 2025: Property

17 Dec 2025

Source: Reuters.

Infrastructure & Utilities

More than R200m spent on unused sports stadiums by Limpopo municipalities

GroundUp Staff and The Outlier 1 Dec 2025

Property

Buffalo City wants to recover R16m in Covid housing funds

Johnnie Isaac and GroundUp staff 9 May 2025

Four years after the landmark Concourt Mahalangu ruling, domestic workers are still unable to access compensation. Archive photo: Bernard Chiguvare / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Union criticises employers for not registering domestic workers with UIF. But it’s not so simple

Kimberly Mutandiro and GroundUp Staff 26 Nov 2024

The CCMA has dismissed a claim for unfair dismissal by a former Dis-Chem employee with cancer. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

In sickness and in health: What can workers expect from their employer if they are too sick to work?

Tania Broughton and GroundUp Staff 14 Aug 2024

Many Cape Town journalists attended the vigil. Source: GroundUp

Media

South African media community mourns journalists killed in Gaza

GroundUp Staff 29 Jan 2024

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Marketing & Media

#BestofBiz 2023: Marketing & Media

19 Dec 2023

Facilities & Property Management

This is where people are occupying Metrorail's Central Line in Cape Town

Sandiso Phaliso and GroundUp staff 26 Oct 2023

Bester and Magudumana threaten court action to stop book release

Publishing

Bester and Magudumana threaten court action to stop book release

GroundUp Staff 12 Oct 2023

There are at least three Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved by reputable health regulatory organisations around the world and many countries have begun rolling out vaccines, but not South Africa. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

Health workers demand vaccine rollout

GroundUp staff 5 Jan 2021

Machines like this (Gene Xpert) can be used to test for Covid-19, but they require cartridges to be imported into the country and demand currently appears to far exceed supply. Photo: Wikimedia user Wizi09 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Covid-19

Huge delays in Covid-19 test results

Liezl Human and GroundUp staff 11 May 2020

Heated debate over which court should hear farm worker case

Human Rights Law

Heated debate over which court should hear farm worker case

Tariro Washinyira and GroundUp Staff 8 Nov 2019

Former Prasa Rail CEO back in the dock for fraud

Criminal Law

Former Prasa Rail CEO back in the dock for fraud

Joseph Chirume and GroundUp Staff 28 Feb 2019

Chinese, black and white labourers in a South African gold mine probably taken between 1904 to 1910. Source: Carptenter/Library of Congress via pingnews (public domain)

Mining

Stats SA's confusing mining employment statistics

GroundUp staff 27 Feb 2019

Case not closed: Cape High Court backlog showing no signs of improving

Law Practice

Case not closed: Cape High Court backlog showing no signs of improving

GroundUp Staff 25 Feb 2019

Court rules that allocation of police in Western Cape is discriminatory

Human Rights Law

Court rules that allocation of police in Western Cape is discriminatory

Thembela Ntongana and GroundUp Staff 19 Dec 2018

Site B is currently a parking lot on the Foreshore, as shown in the above image captured from .

Retail & Hospitality Property

De Lille requests investigation into Foreshore property sale

GroundUp staff 1 Oct 2018

Bottled water and the drought

FMCG

Bottled water and the drought

Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp staff 20 Dec 2017