The trial of Christo Oncker, 28, accused of the murder of a gay man in Ceres in April, is to be moved to the Western Cape High Court, magistrate Japie Mapomie said in the Ceres magistrate’s court on Thursday.
Pharie Sefali
News | 17 October 2014
One in four South Africans suffers from hunger on a regular basis, according to an Oxfam report released ahead of World Food Day, October 16.
Joyce Xi
News | 16 October 2014
Platinum mining giant Lonmin could have found the money to meet rock drillers’ pay demands instead of shifting funds between subsidiaries, possibly to avoid tax.
GroundUp staff
News | 16 October 2014
People involved in a road accident where someone is injured or killed should come directly to the Road Accident Fund, Communications Manager for RAF Jacqui Sobantu said at a briefing in Mfuleni at the weekend.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 14 October 2014
Vasco da Gama beat RV United from Khayelitsha on penalties at the women’s finals of this year’s amateur Coke Cup at Athlone stadium.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 14 October 2014
Lawyers representing the Bardale resident who fell into an uncovered drain in October last year say they are still processing the legal action.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 14 October 2014
Residents of the informal settlement in Bardale have accused Baseline construction company of negligence after a man fell into an open drain, injuring his leg. This is the second incident in a year.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 13 October 2014
Every day, hundreds of Zimbabweans cross the Beit Bridge border across the Limpopo River into South Africa - some of them illegally. GroundUp reporter Tariro Washinyira joined them.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 13 October 2014
The man assaulted by police at his home in Hangberg last week is preparing to bring a civil claim against the police. Meanwhile, Hout Bay’s police commissioner has said that neither he nor his staff knew of the covert operation by the National Intervention Unit.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 10 October 2014
Cape Town-based think-tank Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), which was stopped by Lonmin from holding a press conference about the platinum company’s accounts, intends to hold the conference “very soon”.
GroundUp staff
News | 10 October 2014
A hacking cough comes from the motley group of people huddled together in a flimsy shack alongside the railway line near Woodstock’s industrial area. It could be from the smoke from the fire; it could be from the cigarette smoke that fills the shack – or it could be tuberculosis.
Ian Broughton
News | 10 October 2014
The karate kids of the Eyethu Goju-Kai in Khayelitsha are living proof of how sport can instil discipline in young children.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 10 October 2014
The SA Student Congress (SASCO) has split and a new breakaway organisation has won seats on the Student Representative Councils of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape.
Zintle Swana
News | 9 October 2014
Emotions ran high in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as Social Justice Coalition’s(SJC) general secretary, Phumeza Mlungwana, was cross-examined about last year’s protest on the steps of the Cape Town Civic Centre.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 October 2014
The Commission of Inquiry into the Lwandle evictions has recommended changes to legislation to prevent illegal evictions in future.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 8 October 2014
Zimbabweans were promised in August by the Department of Home Affairs that they could apply for the Zimbabwean Special Permit (ZSP) from October 1, 2014, but many have been unable to.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 8 October 2014