South African activists are campaigning to get a multinational pharmaceutical company, Novartis, to drop a court case against the Indian government.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 18 July 2012
The brother of a Zimbabwean woman who was murdered last week is accusing her ex-boyfriend in a case that highlights violence against women.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 18 July 2012
On Monday, a group of unemployed school-leavers gathered in Athlone for GROW Academy. This is an initiative by organisations in Cape Town to give people basic information technology skills through a five day training programme called a boot camp.
Veronica Washaya
News | 18 July 2012
The Grahamstown Arts Festival is world famous for its many plays and music performances. But there's a lesser known alternative festival which takes place along side it, called the Rhini Festival of Resistance.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 18 July 2012
The Constitutional Literacy and Service Initiative (CLASI) ran a camp for learners from different schools about the Constitution at the District 6 Museum from 2 to 4 July.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 18 July 2012
First we had the Spear, a painting by Brett Murray. Now we have the Dick, a cartoon by Jonathan — Zapiro — Shapiro. And this satire of a genital nature has, in both cases, caused the same polarised reaction: support or amused indifference on one side; expressions of outrage on the other.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 18 July 2012
On 10 December 1998, about 10 people picketed outside St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town. They demanded that the state roll out a programme to reduce the risk of pregnant women transmitting HIV to their infants and for drug companies to lower their HIV medicine prices. This marked the modest beginning of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 18 July 2012
GroundUp interviewed Ashley Hartog, the midfielder for Supersport United who won the club's Player of the Season and the Players' Player of the Season awards for the 2011/12 season.
Margo Fortune
News | 18 July 2012
Mnoneleli Ngubo, a leading member of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, was stabbed to death in his Khayelitsha home on Tuesday 3 July.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 July 2012
Phumeza Mlungwana took photos of the effects of winter flooding on Khayelitsha's RR and TR sections.
Phumeza Mlungwana
Brief | 11 July 2012
The rain makes life even more difficult for the residents of Taiwan in Khayelitsha.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 11 July 2012
Kholekile Tisana is partially blind and has lived in a block of flats called Somafu in Gugulethu for the past year. He says living there is the same as living in a shack.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 July 2012
Abdirahaman Abdiwali, a leader in the local Somali community, explained some the difficulties Somalis face to GroundUp.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 11 July 2012
Every Wednesday in Hyde Park, Mitchells Plain, a group of people both young and old gather outside a one bedroom house waiting to be given a bowl of hot soup and a slice of bread. This community project was started in 2009 by Quinton Welman.
Veronica Washaya
News | 11 July 2012
A memorial service was held for Phumeza Nkolonzi on 5 July in Nyanga.
Nokubonga Yawa
Brief | 11 July 2012
This is COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s, opening address to the Equal Education National Congress in Tembisa on 8 July 2012.
Zwelinzima Vavi
Opinion | 11 July 2012
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