With parties in full swing out campaigning, some will hire artists and bands to perform at election rallies. GroundUp asked some performers how they will vote, but most wouldn’t disclose, out of fear of being sidelined on various platforms, losing their funding or alienating their audience.
Dumisani Dabadini
News | 14 April 2014
Emasithandane home, founded in 1994 in Nyanga, currently looks after 39 children, most of them HIV infected and affected. 20 years later, it is still going strong despite financial constraints.
Bulelani Ngovi
News | 14 April 2014
Unimportance, Thando Mgqolozana’s latest novel was launched at the Book Lounge, Roeland Street, Cape Town on 11 April.
Thando Mgqolozana
News | 14 April 2014
Farm employer organisation AgriSA last week met with trade union representatives in an effort to strike a deal to allow unionisation on farms — and especially in the winelands of the Western Cape. “Most farmers still will not allow union representatives onto their properties,” says Federation of Unions (Fedusa) general secretary Dennis George.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 14 April 2014
On April 10, an election debate convened by Equal Education and Ndifuna Ukwazi in Khayelitsha with the DA, EFF, Agang and Cosatu, was disrupted by unruly party members.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 April 2014
Rwandan Hutu cousins, Hakizimana and Kwizera (not their real names), aged 30 and 35, believe the 1994 genocide story is told in a partisan manner, and they say the reconciliation and unity policy is government imposed.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 11 April 2014
On April 10, at Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, representatives of the ANC, DA, EFF, and Agang SA spoke about their parties’ policies. But the debate ended, before many questions could be asked.
Craig Oosthuizen
News | 11 April 2014
In the third of three interviews ahead of the May elections, GroundUp asked Veronica Mente, the coordinator of EFF in the Western Cape, some questions.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 April 2014
In the second of three interviews in the run-up to the May elections, Vuyiso Tyhalisisu, ANC secretary in the Cape Town metro, answers GroundUp's questions.
Pharie Sefali
News | 10 April 2014
Following two deaths in April, Metrorail security services have been told to take strong action against any commuter found riding outside the trains.
Fergus Turner
News | 10 April 2014
10 April marks the 21st anniversary of Chris Hani’s murder. His death left a nation wondering what its future would have been like had he lived.
Brent Meersman
News | 10 April 2014
In the run-up to the May 7 elections, GroundUp asked a set of questions to leading Western Cape representatives of the Democratic Alliance, the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters. Here is our interview with Masizole Mnqasela, MP, DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Member of the DA Federal Council and a Khayelitsha Constituency Head.
Pharie Sefali
News | 9 April 2014
This week we cover a helpful guide to whistleblowing from Corruption Watch and a further victory for informal traders who were unlawfully removed by the City of Johannesburg.
Brent Meersman
News | 9 April 2014
Since partnering up with Da L.E.S, Kiernan Forbes, whose stage name is AKA, has been headlining more gigs now than ever before, not only for his strikingly unconventional Kanye-esqe style and entourage, but mainly for his lyrics.
Zethu Gqola
News | 9 April 2014
Paul Boughey, chief of staff to the executive mayor of Cape Town, takes issue with Dustin Kramer's article on GroundUp.
Paul Boughey
Opinion | 9 April 2014
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