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Neurology

Kim Kardashian’s brain aneurysm diagnosis: what it means and who is most at risk

Adam Taylor 17 hours

Inkosi Thathezakhe Special School in the Mzinyathi District will stay closed until its needs are fully met, says Dudu Moloi, chair of the School Governing Body. Photo: Bongane Motaung / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

KwaZulu-Natal Premier promises funds for special schools

Bongane Motaung and Tsoanelo Sefoloko 1 day

About 30 magistrates protested outside Parliament at lunch time on Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Zora Hollie / GroundUp

Law Practice

Magistrates protest outside Parliament

Zora Hollie 1 day

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Travel

Africa’s air links are poor: Can the G20 push for more direct flights to improve tourism and trade?

Kaitano Dube 1 day

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Coal, Oil & Gas

South Africa’s coal mines are leaking methane – and no one knows how much

Jennifer Lee Broadhurst, Brett Cohen and Jesse Burton 2 days

Inclusive CX is South Africa’s untapped growth opportunity

CRM, CX, UX

Inclusive CX is South Africa’s untapped growth opportunity

Bongani Mdluli, Issued by Helm 2 days

Higher Education

AI in the classroom is hard to detect – time to bring back oral tests

Shahper Richter and Patrick Dodd 3 days

Source: GroundUp/Matthew. Hirsch. Rosaline Isaacs, 77, last heard about her claim three years ago when the Land Claims Commission sent her a letter thanking her for her patience.

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

District Six claimants wonder if they will be alive by the time government redevelops the historic site

Matthew Hirsch 3 days

First Cape Town Speed Classic hillclimb a hit with locals and fans

Events & Shows

First Cape Town Speed Classic hillclimb a hit with locals and fans

27 Oct 2025

AI in Africa: 5 issues that must be tackled for digital equality

4th Industrial Revolution

AI in Africa: 5 issues that must be tackled for digital equality

Rachel Adams 25 Oct 2025

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Higher Education

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?

Carla Liuzzo and Mimi Tsai 24 Oct 2025

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Higher Education

Universities can turn AI from a threat to an opportunity by teaching critical thinking

Anitia Lubbe 22 Oct 2025

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Climate Change

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is corporate gaslighting – the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry

Alex Lenferna 22 Oct 2025

Source: GroundUp/Bongane Motaung

Infrastructure & Utilities

KZN municipality battles skills shortage as water infrastructure collapses

Bongane Motaung 21 Oct 2025

Source: GroundUp/Kimberly Mutandiro

Construction & Engineering

Contract workers march in Joburg demanding permanent jobs

Kimberly Mutandiro 21 Oct 2025

People illegally mine for gold in this forest in north-western Zambia. Photos and videos supplied

Mining

Guns, gangs and gold: The battle for Zambia’s riches

Charles Mafa, James Beluchi and Caleb Likomeno 22 Oct 2025

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Nutrition

Fruit juices in South Africa are getting a free ride: why they should have the same health warning labels as fizzy drinks

Siphiwe Dlamini 21 Oct 2025

University of Free State’s campuses have begun re-opening. Photo: Tladi Moloi / GroundUp

Higher Education

Agreement reached at University of Free State after week of protests

Tladi Moloi 21 Oct 2025

Social Media

As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

Alex Beattie 20 Oct 2025

Otters’ Creek Junior School teacher Ayesha Galant presents a lesson. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Zoning problem forces Cape Town school to close

20 Oct 2025

High food prices in east and southern Africa: Four steps to boost production and make markets work better

Agriculture

High food prices in east and southern Africa: Four steps to boost production and make markets work better

Grace Nsomba and Simon Roberts 20 Oct 2025

Parents protest outside Khulangolwazi Special School in Durban. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Special schools closed in KZN after education department fails to pay subsidies

Tsoanelo Sefoloko 17 Oct 2025

Source: Themba Siaga. Construction of the Davhana Stadium started in 2019, but the project remains incomplete, though millions have been spent on it.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Limpopo stadium project soaks up time and money

Thembi Siaga 16 Oct 2025

Pharmacists can initiate people with HIV on antiretroviral treatment, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled. Photo: GroundUp Staff

Medical Law

Pharmacists can treat people with HIV, appeal court rules

10 Oct 2025

Activists have welcomed the extension of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) and the Lesotho Exemption Permit (LEP) by another 18 months. This announcement has come as a welcome relief to many families. Graphic: Lisa Nelson/GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Zimbabwe and Lesotho permits extended to May 2027

Joseph Chirume 10 Oct 2025

These blocks of flats in Kalk Bay, built in the 1940s, have been inhabited by generations of fishing families. The families are concerned that high water bills are threatening their ability to keep living here. Photos: Liezl Human

Food, Water & Energy Security

We’re being pushed out, say Kalk Bay fishing families

Liezl Human 9 Oct 2025

The Land Court has ruled that landowners who wish to apply to the courts for an eviction order must first go through a mediation process. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Land & Property Law

Landowners must go through mediation before applying for an eviction, court rules

Tania Broughton 7 Oct 2025

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Medical Research

Nobel prize awarded for discovery of immune system’s ‘security guards’

Tracy Hussell 7 Oct 2025

AAA and TBWA deliver training in Ghana. Source:

Advertising

AI meets African creativity: AAA and TBWA deliver training in Ghana

7 Oct 2025

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Public Health

Vaccines and motherhood: Are AI-generated health messages working in Kenya and Nigeria?

Yewande O. Addie 8 Oct 2025

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Infrastructure & Utilities

Billions needed to fix courts, prisons and police buildings

GroundUp and The Outlier 3 Oct 2025

The new campus for Rivoni School of the Blind includes several large buildings. But work to finish the project has been stalled for most of this year. Photos: Thembi Siaga / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

IDT’s school project stalls as costs reach R198m

Thembi Siaga 3 Oct 2025

Dozens of people, many of them health workers, picketed outside Red Cross Hospital on Thursday. Photos: Matthew Hirsch

Ethics & Medicolegal

Health workers picket for flotilla to be protected

Matthew Hirsch 3 Oct 2025

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Nutrition

Is TikTok right? Should I avoid matcha if I have low iron?

Margaret Murray 2 Oct 2025

About 50 members of the Food and Allied Workers Union picketed outside the Labour Court on Tuesday. They had applied to interdict South African Breweries (SAB) from retrenching workers. Photo: Silver Sibiya / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Court dismisses bid to stop retrenchment of SA Breweries workers

Silver Sibiya 2 Oct 2025

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Corporate & Commercial Law

Legal action looms over Mamelodi Magistrates’ Court construction fiasco

Warren Mabona 1 Oct 2025

The high court in Pretoria has struck Postbank’s urgent application to stop the termination of its contract with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) from the court’s urgent roll. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Health & Social Welfare

Judge dismisses Postbank’s attempt to keep social grants contract

Marecia Damons 29 Sep 2025

Source: The Polihali Dam wall under construction. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Villagers lodge complaint with African Development Bank against Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Sechaba Mokhethi 29 Sep 2025

Source: eThekwini Municipality.

Affordable & Social Housing

Anger over delays at Durban housing project

Tsoanelo Sefoloko 29 Sep 2025

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Food, Water & Energy Security

Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun

Peter Newman and Ray Wills 29 Sep 2025

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Infrastructure & Utilities

Passenger rail gets back on track, slowly

GroundUp and The Outlier 29 Sep 2025

Lesotho’s coat of arms at Makoanyane Square in Maseru. Tariff changes could halve the country’s exports to the United States, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

HR & Management

Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns

Sechaba Mokhethi 26 Sep 2025

Tando Poni, Samwu’s regional secretary, addresses a crowd of workers on Tuesday, instructing them to return to work. Photo: Johnnie Isaacs / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Municipal strike called off in Buffalo City

Johnnie Isaac 25 Sep 2025

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Hospital Groups

Paracetamol, pregnancy and autism: what the science really shows

Dipa Kamdar 25 Sep 2025

The contract between SASSA and Postbank is to be terminated this month. But Postbank has approached the court to get this set aside, saying it will have “severe consequences for vulnerable citizens”. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Health & Social Welfare

Court battle over the end of Postbank’s agreement with Sassa

Marecia Damons 25 Sep 2025

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

Nigeria’s plastic waste could enrich the fashion industry: here’s how

Solaja Mayowa Oludele 22 Sep 2025

Higher Education

SA’s student debt trap: Two options that could help resolve the problem

Michele Van Eck 19 Sep 2025

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Pharmaceuticals

Weight loss drug semaglutide shown to be safe and potentially more effective at higher dose – new findings

Martin Whyte 18 Sep 2025

Marketing

The ‘anxiety economy’ is booming. But should companies be profiting from our fears?

Paul Harrison 18 Sep 2025

About 200 activists marched to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday to support Wild Coast communities opposing seismic surveys and oil exploration rights granted to Shell and Impact Africa. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Activists march against Shell’s oil exploration

Ihsaan Haffejee and Thamsanqa Mbovane 17 Sep 2025