Health department to take medical approach to heroin crisis
Staff at TB HIV Care provide methadone at a drop-in centre in central Cape Town. Archive photo: David Harrison Research
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Public Works Minister: Telkom Towers police HQ a “monument to inefficient management”
Almost R1-billion has been spent on the Telkom Tower complex in Pretoria which was meant to house the national headquarters
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
SASSA CEO must resign over social grant failures, say Western Cape MPLs
Long queues in February 2024 outside the SASSA office in Khayelitsha. Archive photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana Western Cape Provincial MPLs had
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Long queues as Eskom meter upgrade deadline approaches
GroundUp has been monitoring the queues outside Eskom Louis Trichardt office since the week ending 8 November. Every day there
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Suspended Lotteries company secretary loses again in court
Nompumelo Nene, the suspended company secretary of the National Lotteries Commission, has lost again in court. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Eviction looms for victims of traditional leader’s land scam
A court has ordered that these homes in Magadangana Village in Mpumalanga, built on municipal plots sold by a traditional
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Learners pay R150 to fill water tanks at overcrowded, dilapidated Limpopo school
Staff at Kutsakeni Primary say these boreholes at the school dried up in 2021. Now the school has asked learners
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Thousands of Khayelitsha families use filthy toilets or an open field
Thousands of Khayelitsha residents have to use these filthy, broken toilets. Photos taken on Monday, 11 November by Vincent Lali
GroundUp
November 13, 2024
KwaZulu-Natal education department fails to pay crèches
Early childhood development centres in KwaZulu-Natal, like this one in KwaNdengezi, west of Durban, have been battling because of irregular
GroundUp
November 13, 2024
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor targets immigrant-owned spaza shops
The newly-appointed mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe has started her term of office by targeting immigrant-owned spaza shops.
GroundUp
November 13, 2024
Health
Health department to take medical approach to heroin crisis
Staff at TB HIV Care provide methadone at a drop-in centre in central Cape Town. Archive photo: David Harrison Research
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Economy & Energy
Public Works Minister: Telkom Towers police HQ a “monument to inefficient management”
Almost R1-billion has been spent on the Telkom Tower complex in Pretoria which was meant to house the national headquarters
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Government & Service Delivery
SASSA CEO must resign over social grant failures, say Western Cape MPLs
Long queues in February 2024 outside the SASSA office in Khayelitsha. Archive photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana Western Cape Provincial MPLs had
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Economy & Energy
Long queues as Eskom meter upgrade deadline approaches
GroundUp has been monitoring the queues outside Eskom Louis Trichardt office since the week ending 8 November. Every day there
GroundUp
November 15, 2024
Crime & Justice
Suspended Lotteries company secretary loses again in court
Nompumelo Nene, the suspended company secretary of the National Lotteries Commission, has lost again in court. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Environment & Water
Eviction looms for victims of traditional leader’s land scam
A court has ordered that these homes in Magadangana Village in Mpumalanga, built on municipal plots sold by a traditional
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Education & Training
Learners pay R150 to fill water tanks at overcrowded, dilapidated Limpopo school
Staff at Kutsakeni Primary say these boreholes at the school dried up in 2021. Now the school has asked learners
GroundUp
November 14, 2024
Environment & Water
Thousands of Khayelitsha families use filthy toilets or an open field
Thousands of Khayelitsha residents have to use these filthy, broken toilets. Photos taken on Monday, 11 November by Vincent Lali
GroundUp
November 13, 2024
Education & Training
KwaZulu-Natal education department fails to pay crèches
Early childhood development centres in KwaZulu-Natal, like this one in KwaNdengezi, west of Durban, have been battling because of irregular
GroundUp
November 13, 2024
Government & Service Delivery
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor targets immigrant-owned spaza shops
The newly-appointed mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe has started her term of office by targeting immigrant-owned spaza shops.
GroundUp
November 13, 2024