A group of organisations have created successful small projects, but now they want to aim bigger.

Chasing the taxi bosses’ targets makes it hard to be compliant with traffic legislation, drivers tell GroundUp

What happens now to “drunk” Judge Nkola Motata?

This might be the country’s first such school

The meant-to-be newly renovated Ngqamakhwe police station has been stripped by vandals after construction work stopped

Community leader Alfred Magwaca says more Langa Centenary celebration events have been planned for the coming weeks.

Volunteers work from 9am to 1pm on weekdays

Five people have died in incidents related to the taxi strike, announces police minister Bheki Cele.

Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape refuses to name the construction company it paid R16-million, according to councillors, to build 320 stalls for hawkers in three towns. Only 60 stalls were built, in Dutywa, less than a fifth of what it was supposed to deliver. No stalls were built in Xhorha (Elliotdale) or Willowvale.

Criminals have taken advantage of the taxi shutdown by hijacking vehicles, looting shops and burning infrastructure. One of our reporters also witnessed taxi drivers directly taking part in the violence that enveloped parts of Cape Town on Monday. The situation is especially volatile in Philippi, where there was a standoff between police and stone throwers. […]

Published originally on Groundup / Ashraf Hendricks

Two extraordinary events in the last few weeks lay bare the severe shortage of judges in our courts. The first was last week’s announcement by Judge Robert Henney that several gang-related murder trials could not proceed because there were simply no judges available to try them at the Western Cape High Court division. He postponed the trials […]

Most municipal services in communities such as Browns Farm, Philippi East, Nyanga and Samora Machel in Cape Town have been suspended, with some schools and clinics closed due to threats of violence related to the ongoing taxi strike. On Thursday evening, we spoke to Zandile Tyabeka from Gugulethu, who had been waiting hours for a taxi from […]

The newspaper got millions of rands of Lottery advertising and also ran stories to counter exposés of corruption. The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) spent tens of millions of rands on advertising and advertorials between 2019 and 2022 to counter reports exposing corruption involving Lottery funds. A massively disproportionate amount went to one newspaper in particular: Sunday World. The impact […]

Gugulethu Chess College founder Babalwa Rubusana goes from class to class at Luzuko Primary School, collecting learners on the under-11 chess team. Founded in 2016 and aimed at young children, the college is a no-fee mobile chess school for learners from disadvantaged households. In one classroom, we saw several grade 4 learners and one grade 5 […]