News | GroundUp

Company made millions advising corruption-riddled Lottery on ethics

“Ethics interventions” at NLC cost more than R6-million

News | 4 May 2023

Eastern Cape principal accused of beating learners with a hose pipe

The principal is one of six teachers in the Eastern Cape currently under investigation by the department for use of corporal punishment

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 4 May 2023

Families in Joburg’s World Trade Centre win reprieve from eviction, only to lose everything in a fire

They are reclaimers, and some have been living and working in the building for 10 years

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 4 May 2023

Thabo Bester escape: state says prison CCTV technician was offered R2.5-million bribe

Details emerge in court of state’s case against Bester and co-accused

By Becker Semela and Daniel Steyn

News | 3 May 2023

We’ve been forgotten, say people with disabilities in Musina

People are living in houses that don’t cater for their needs

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 3 May 2023

We have to buy water for R300 a month, say families in Mpumalanga villages

Residents say they’ve been without consistent water supply for three years

By Warren Mabona

News | 3 May 2023

For years, subsidies have been withheld from poorest Eastern Cape schools

Schools now set to receive missing R872.5-million

By Rod Amner

News | 2 May 2023

“Our kids survive on pap and tea,” says protesting COGTA worker

Hundreds march to Luthuli House on Workers’ Day, demanding higher wages

By Chris Gilili

News | 2 May 2023

Popular TV show fined for domestic violence episode

There was no corrective to Isencane Lengane’s depiction of gender-based violence, says the Broadcasting Complaints Commission

By Dave Chambers

News | 2 May 2023

Crackdown on judges for late judgments

JSC asks president to suspend Judges Tshifhiwa Maumela and Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi

By Tania Broughton

News | 28 April 2023

Makhanda literacy project shows dramatic results

Whistle Stop School pulls learners out of class for short periods to teach them to read

By Lucas Nowicki

News | 28 April 2023

Refugees evicted from UNHCR offices find shelter in an old school

The building does not have toilets or electricity. But the refugees say it is better than Lindela Repatriation Centre

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 28 April 2023

Panashe, four months old, lives in a ditch with his mother

Melissa Gwarimba just wishes the Musina municipality would provide bathrooms for homeless people

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 28 April 2023

Hundreds of COGTA workers protest in Pretoria over unpaid wages

COGTA blames implementing agent, whose contract ended in March, for delays

By Chris Gilili

News | 26 April 2023

“Freedom Day is for rich people.” Shackdwellers protest in Durban

Residents of informal settlements march to city hall

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 26 April 2023

Langa Centenary celebrations to kick off on Freedom Day

10km run to honour Makhosonke Fika, Langa’s legendary long-distance runner

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 26 April 2023