Montevideo is a small suburb just outside of Gugulethu, nestled in Montana. With mostly a coloured population, it faces the N2 freeway and is in between a bus depot and a school for the physically disabled.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 5 September 2012
Some parts of Athlone have serious violence and drug problems. We interviewed the ward councillor for these areas to find out what's being done about it.
Margo Fortune
News | 5 September 2012
Equal Education (EE), officially launched their Fix Our Schools exhibition at the Central Methodist Mission Church on Thursday.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 5 September 2012
The High School Book Club, is based in Nyanga township at Oscar Mpetha High School. This is a new project started by Madoda Soko who is originally from Tembisa in Johannesburg.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 5 September 2012
Nineteen-year-old Shane Petersen talks about growing up in a community surrounded by drugs and how soccer gave him a chance.
Margo Fortune
News | 5 September 2012
An ongoing wage dispute that led to an unprotected strike by farm workers highlights the complex relationship between farmers and workers in the De Doorns area.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 September 2012
We spoke to Jimmy Gama, Treasurer of the Association of Mine Workers and Construction Union (AMCU), about the Lonmin strike, the killings at Marikana, the status of negotiations and what needs to happen next.
Mara Kardas-Nelson
News | 5 September 2012
Professional soccer players who are refugees in South Africa have found comfort in establishing an informal soccer club, with the objective of being recognized and playing professionally again, like they did in their birth countries.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 September 2012
Dalli Weyers looks at the design problems with the Tara KLamp circumcision device.
Dalli Weyers
Opinion | 5 September 2012
To help us and our readers better understand local government service delivery, GroundUp has been interviewing ward councillors and residents.
GroundUp Editor
News | 5 September 2012
The councillor for a major ward in Khayelitsha says the city is ignoring the real needs of his community.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 5 September 2012
GroundUp interviewed investigative journalist Greg Marinovich, who has published shocking findings about the deaths of miners at Marikana.
Mara Kardas-Nelson
News | 4 September 2012
The bloodbath at Lonmin’s Marikana mine served to alert more of the public to aspects of feuding and tension that have been ongoing for years and not only at Lonmin and in the mining industry generally. In particular it has highlighted the stresses, strains and battles for power and position within the trade union movement and opened up a number of debates about the way forward.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 3 September 2012
Dudley Lee contracted TB while he was an awaiting trial prisoner. Now he's suing the state.
Mary-Jane Matsolo and GroundUp Staff
News | 29 August 2012
GroundUp has been reporting on sports facilities in Cape Town's townships. We interviewed Tandeka Gqada, Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services, to find out the city's ideas and plans for making sports facilities more available.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 29 August 2012
Travis Graham, who is just 19, played his first PSL match last week Wednesday for Ajax Cape Town.
Margo Fortune
News | 29 August 2012
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