5 December 2012
Asylum seekers in Cape Town are struggling because their First National Bank (FNB) accounts have been frozen. The bank insists on seeing unexpired asylum documents every three to six months to keep bank accounts active. Many asylum seekers have to wait up to six months for their documents to be approved by Home Affairs and end up not being able to provide the documents FNB insists upon. Tariro Washinyira
GroundUp TV produces documentary inserts based on indivuduals, groups or organisations based in your community. Our first series will feature people living in and around Richards Bay, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Watch the show on CTV Wednesdays at 19h45, 1KZN TV Wednesdays at 19h15, and Bay TV on Tuesdays at 18h15 starting 11 December. GroundUp Editor
Township beauty pageants are extremely popular. On Saturday Sexee Simplicities ran a pageant in Du Noon. But are these competitions sexist and demeaning or do they actually empower women? Mihle Pike and GroundUp staff
Anele Yawa is a proportional representative councillor in Uitenhage. In August he spent nine days in prison. He alleges his only crime was to do his job. Mary-Jane Matsolo
In a week\xe2\x80\x99s time a group of teenagers will make their second appearance in the Khayelitsha Magistrate\xe2\x80\x99s Court after being arrested for public violence and possession of dangerous weapons, as the gangsterism problem rages on in the township. Mary-Anne Gontsana
\xe2\x80\x9cGovernment cannot spend any more money on HIV and Aids,\xe2\x80\x9d said Premier Helen Zille at a public hearing meeting on health, HIV/AIDS and TB service delivery at the Mew Way Hall in Khayelitsha on 3 December. Mary-Jane Matsolo
Generation X is a hip hop group from Zwelitsha in Nyanga, Cape Town. Nokubonga Yawa
Kayla Kim Meiring is the founder of Fro, a company that started off selling vintage clothing but now sells Meiring's own homespun popular clothes. Margo Fortune and Nokubonga Yawa
Mpati Ramatsoku and Moses Mogotsi are two South African PhD students who are being funded to work on one of the most exciting science projects of the decade: the Square Kilometre Array. Tessa Gooding
Bloemfontein Celtic won the Telkom Knockout for the first time on Saturday when they beat Mamelodi Sundowns 1-0. GroundUp interviewed Celtic's 21-year old left wing from Athlone, Lyle Lakey. Margo Fortune
A small part of the murk surrounding South Africa\xe2\x80\x99s multi-billion dollar arms deal cleared slightly, but only to reveal still greater depths to be plumbed. Terry Bell