Articles for GroundUp Staff

Covid-19 in South Africa: 150,000 excess deaths in one year

Excess deaths decline for first time since November

Mortality still near record high but it looks like we are turning the corner

Covid-19 and vaccines: Questions and answers

Updated 15 April 2021

Over 100,000 South Africans have probably died of Covid-19

Latest MRC report shows over 16,000 excess deaths in week ending 16 January

Extend disability grants, Black Sash tells SASSA as queues shock country

SASSA has proposed a ten-point plan to deal with backlogs

Covid-19: Our grimmest day yet

Minister reports 844 confirmed deaths. MRC reports worst week yet.

Health workers demand vaccine rollout

Thousands sign letter calling for Department of Health to act urgently

2020 in pictures: a year of living dangerously

Covid-19, evictions, fires and an elephant: GroundUp’s photos of the year

Late judgments: Is the Cape High Court doing better?

Something troubling has shaken our confidence in the data

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Can you guess the order these photos were taken?

An expensive troubled bridge over water

Success against Covid-19: Temporary Cape Town hospital closes

“We’ve got to now save jobs and stop hunger and unemployment,” says Premier Alan Winde

Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 denialists

As deaths surge, Furnworld openly breaks vital regulations

GroundUp wins lottery court battle

Attempt to force us to stop publishing details of grants abandoned

Confusion over school resumption

Conflicting messages sent to teachers, parents and learners