Articles for GroundUp Editors

Iqbal Survé’s newspapers take the side of the Lottery crooks

Beware of misleading crime statistics

People in poorer neighbourhoods usually have less incentive to report crime

GroundView: Aaron Motsoaledi’s shameful outburst

Instead of providing a reasoned defence of the government’s decision to end the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit, he has made a venomous, unhinged attack on civil society.

The justice system is showing signs of rot

Judges and lawyers who care need to stop it

GROUNDVIEW: How could a teacher guilty of sexual assault go on teaching for five years?

A learner was betrayed by the education department and the National Prosecuting Authority

NUMSA responds to our report

And we respond to NUMSA

A challenge to Cape Town’s new administration: please fix the sewerage system

This is one thing which affects all of us

Fikile Mbalula demands R2 million from GroundUp reporters

He accuses us of defamation but does not point out any factual errors in our article

None of the Above wins local elections

Three terrible local election campaigns

Covid-19 testing is too expensive and too difficult in South Africa

Our current approach is probably costing lives

GroundView: There is no scientific basis for the 12am to 4am curfew

Curfew could be reinstated if hospital beds start running out

GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting

The Lottery, the law firm and the minister: more questions than answers

We have uncovered hundreds of millions of rands worth of corruption and maladministration over three years, but no one has been brought to justice

Covid-19: Unions should push harder for teachers to get vaccinated

It’s almost never a reasonable choice to not get vaccinated

GroundUp takes lawyers’ council to court

Incompetent LPC decision has given the green light to lawyers who wish to commit fraud