George Nyiko Maluleka is the 23-year old up-and-coming star mid-fielder for Supersport United.
Margo Fortune
News | 8 August 2012
Mary Waters High School in Grahamstown has 1087 learners from poor families.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 6 August 2012
The controversial medical parole of former top cop, Jackie Selebi, has once again thrown into stark relief questions about kidney disease and treatment, questions that have long disturbed the labour movement.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 2 August 2012
Every finish line is the beginning of a race. I’m on the finish line of my gangster life and at the beginning of whole new life.
Mzi
Opinion | 1 August 2012
A new Maternity unit has opened its doors at the local Day Hospital in Delft.
Janine Fortuin
Brief | 1 August 2012
This past Saturday, 28 July, saw the launch of the ‘My Vote Counts’ campaign. The event took place at the District Six Museum in Cape Town and was attended by more than 40 social activists, all of whom participated in their personal capacities. The occasion was marked by speeches from veteran activist Zackie Achmat, director of Cape Town-based social justice organisation Ndifuna Ukwazi, and well-known cartoonist Jonathan ‘Zapiro’ Shapiro.
Fritz Schoon
Opinion | 1 August 2012
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games opened in London on 27 July 2012. GroundUp interviewed Brian Dzingai who raced against Usain Bolt in the 200 metres at the Beijing Olympics. Dzingai is fom Zimbabwe, but is currently located in Paris.
Veronica Washaya
News | 1 August 2012
The youth of Khayelitsha have been infected with a terrible "disease of gang violence"--as ‘Big Guy’, a radio presenter from Radio Zibonele called it--that is destroying tomorrow’s leaders. It is not hardened gangsters who are involved but children, some as young as 13.
Axolile Notywala
Opinion | 1 August 2012
Rubbish piles, rats and no electricity. This is the site of Somafho, a block of flats in Gugulethu’s NY 121.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 August 2012
There is a large Zimbabwean community in Cape Town. When members die, their friends and family usually want them to be buried back home in Zimbabwe.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 1 August 2012
GroundUp interviewed 23 year-old Ajax defender, Aidan Jenniker.
Margo Fortune
News | 1 August 2012
On Wednesday 25 July, Judge Dennis Davis of the Cape High Court ruled in favour of continued access to the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (CTRRO) for new asylum applicants.
Veronica Washaya
Brief | 1 August 2012
Between Premier Helen Zille calling for the deployment of an army and some Cape Town gangs deciding to end the violence, Khayelitsha is singing a different tune with teenage gangsters taking the violence to a new level.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 August 2012
Most young people living in Cape Town's townships are unemployed and have little chance of getting a job.
GroundUp Editor
News | 25 July 2012
Many drivers get irritated with the youths who, without asking for permission first, wash their windscreens at traffic lights.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 25 July 2012
Lucas Manya works at a stand selling building material in Makhaza, Khayelitsha.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 25 July 2012
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