Artists are by nature creative, but many struggle to take their talent to the public. A good publicist might be a wise investment.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 7 April 2014
In Our Kind of People, novelist Uzodinma Iweala reflects on the damaging misconceptions which shape the way the world sees HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Joshua Maserow
News | 7 April 2014
This was written in September 2011 when Julius Malema was still riding high in the ANCYL. However, the arguments made are, I think vindicated by the subsequent emergence of the EFF. Anyone who thinks the EFF represents a Left alternative is badly — and dangerously — mistaken. I put it out again now because it appears that there are still some otherwise sensible comrades who are considering a vote for the EFF. WASP, for all its faults, is at least a Left bet.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 7 April 2014
GroundUp reporter Tariro Washyinyira asked immigrants what they thought of the South African elections. Some did not want to say anything, but others gave fascinating perspectives. The views expressed by the people Washinyira interviewed, some of which are racist, obviously do not reflect of those of GroundUp or Washinyira.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 4 April 2014
The Five Plus Project was launched on 17 March this year. Its goal is to get as many well-off South Africans as possible to give at least 5% of their income to organisations and initiatives helping to reduce poverty in South Africa or alleviate its effects.
Hugh Corder and Anton Fagan
Opinion | 3 April 2014
As we head into elections, the ANC boasts about successes in the fight against AIDS and South Africa’s large antiretroviral treatment programme.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 3 April 2014
Art came to the streets of Gugulethu at the weekend when the Open Streets Organisation and Maboneng Township Art Experience hosted a march.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 3 April 2014
This morning Metrorail passengers travelling on the Philippi route witnessed a traumatising scene when they saw a body lying next to the railway line. The police have confirmed the death and are investigating the cause.
Pharie Sefali
News | 2 April 2014
Since 2012, Mayor Patricia De Lille and others in the City of Cape Town have repeatedly referred to the proportion of the City’s budget allocated to ‘pro-poor spending’.
Dustin Kramer
Opinion | 2 April 2014
SAPS provincial commissioner General Arno Lamoer is to recommend to the National Commissioner that the police resource allocation guide, which outlines the resources available at each police station, be made available to the public.
Adam Armstrong
News | 2 April 2014
We have the vote but the political parties do not represent the aspirations of the people, writes Ayanda Kota, founder of the Unemployed People’s Movement.
Ayanda Kota
Opinion | 2 April 2014
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology hosted a two day handball tournament at the weekend after the department of Sports and Recreation asked CPUT to popularise the sport in the Western Cape.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 2 April 2014
A man trying to fight corruption and restore financial discipline in the Free State was hijacked and maimed in February 2013, and died the following May. Moses Tshake was asking questions about the province’s corrupt agricultural projects before he died. Now the investigation into his murder has stalled. Mandy de Waal and Jon Pienaar investigate why.
Mandy de Waal and Jon Pienaar
News | 1 April 2014
Young boxers from Khayelitsha, Philippi and Du Noon faced up to each other at the Battle of the Amateurs organised by Umanyano Boxing Club in Philippi at the weekend.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 1 April 2014
Reports published this month by Stats SA and the Medical Research Council (MRC) provide interesting information on how South Africans are dying.
Nathan Geffen
News | 1 April 2014
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