News | GroundUp

Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

News | 7 September 2024

Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 6 September 2024

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Interim interdict stopped the UIF’s new service provider from rendering IT services

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 5 September 2024

Half a billion in unspent funds returned to Treasury by Gauteng department

Auditor-General flags irregular expenditure and insufficient controls in 2023/24 report

By Daniel Steyn

News | 5 September 2024

The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions

The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details

By Daniel Steyn, Joseph Bracken, Raymond Joseph and Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 4 September 2024

Seven years of promises but still no stadium

Waterval Stadium in Limpopo is still incomplete though at least R28-million has been spent

By Thembi Siaga

News | 4 September 2024

There are 90 learners to a class in this Limpopo school

Such classes are uncontrollable, says a teacher

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 4 September 2024

Security guards picket at another Cape Town hospital

Security guards employed by Golden Security Services in Heideveld say they are owed money

By Mary-Anne Gontsana, Tori Newby and Ihsaan Haffejee

News | 3 September 2024

Free State mayor’s mystery 7,000 km journey

Invoices suggest Nketoana mayor spent R100,000 on a rented car in a single month

By Tladi Moloi

News | 3 September 2024

Aussie-owned West Coast mining company in trouble

Owner of controversial Tormin mine is in business rescue

By John Yeld

News | 3 September 2024

African championships get underway despite Basketball South Africa’s bungling

Tournament delayed by late arrival of teams

By Joseph Bracken

News | 3 September 2024

Rules for R370-a-month social grant to be challenged in court in October

#PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice say regulations exclude many people who are eligible; government disagrees

By Marecia Damons

News | 2 September 2024

Man burns to death as police swoop on informal miners

Daggafontein community furious with authorities for “violent” response of authorities to work that fuels their local economy

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 31 August 2024

Security guards picket at Groote Schuur Hospital

The striking workers claim they have been paid late two months in a row

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 30 August 2024

Tensions mount as Cape Town farmers face relocation

The area that the government wants to move them to is already occupied

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 30 August 2024

Mamelodi residents threaten relocated flood victims

The Nellmapius Extension 4 residents say they weren’t consulted about the move and demand that the flood victims be removed in three months

By Warren Mabona

News | 30 August 2024