On Wednesday, Bafana Bafanaâs new intake of youngsters played their second game, this time against African champions Nigeria at Cape Town stadium, leaving over 30,000 supporters with huge smiles. The game ended in a goalless draw, but with Bafana on second spot with six points in Group A of the African Nations Cup Qualifiers.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 12 September 2014
A kid known as Didi, who is six, walks the Nyanga streets asking people for bread and for money to buy sweets and chips. Didi says that sometimes he sleeps without eating; when he wakes up, he and his siblings have to go and look for food.
Pharie Sefali
News | 12 September 2014
Shortly after referring to its CCTV system as "Big Brother" and expressing support for public video surveillance, the City of Cape Town has revealed that it is in the âplanning phaseâ of a camera drone project.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 11 September 2014
Established in 1998, and located in Woodstock, Greatmore Studios is a dynamic environment in which South African artists and international visitors co-exist. The studios have played an essential role in the career development of many highly successful South African artists.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 11 September 2014
This week in activism we cover the symposium on torture hosted by the Wits Justice Project, the march by Equal Education for better sanitation for schools in Gauteng, and the âWhat if Womenâ challenge by WHEAT.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 11 September 2014
In a classroom at Phoenix Secondary School in Mannenberg, GroundUp spoke to Zakie Johnson and Aziza Davids. They are skilled participants working for the Community Work Programme, a poverty relief government initiative that provides a job safety net for the unemployed. The average daily rate is R63,18.
Katy Scott
News | 10 September 2014
After 18 years of legal struggles, Mathijs van Hillegondsberg will meet the Department of Home Affairs in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Van Hillegondsberg claims that he and his family have been victims of maladministration and abuse of power.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 9 September 2014
The Berlin Literary Festival's (BLF) âLiberty and Recognition for Edward Snowdenâ worldwide reading was supported by two events in South Africa at the AVA Gallery and Kalk Bay Bookshop (under the auspices of SA PEN) on Monday.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 9 September 2014
An unbearable smell lingers in the air of RR Section to the point where you can taste it. This is the daily struggle for Khayelitsha residents who live next to overflowing drains and toilets that still remain unfixed by the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 September 2014
More DJs are being recruited from our local townships to showcase their talents on international stages, thanks to organisations such as Bridges for Music and Redbull. However, it seems as though Cape Town itself is not so accommodating.
Zethu Gqola
News | 8 September 2014
In the past two months, five sex workers have been murdered in Cape Town. Three of the victims were under 26. Advocacy organisations partly blame the continued criminalization of sex work.
Barbara Maregele
News | 8 September 2014
Andries Joostenberg, the retired farmworker who was evicted along with his family from a farmhouse in which they had lived for 26 years, has applied for urgent leave to appeal the court order which legalised the eviction. Papers were filed by family lawyer Johan van der Merwe in the Land Claims Court (LCC) on Wednesday.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 5 September 2014
Defence advocate William King argued that conflicting testimonies of key state witnesses and the âdeliberateâ interference from the police constituted proof of his clientâs innocence.
Barbara Maregele
News | 5 September 2014
Some young people believe that being a member of a prison gang is the only way they can get recognition. There are those who also believe that the only way to leave the gang is through death.
Pharie Sefali
News | 5 September 2014
In a bid to tackle the many police âinefficienciesâ highlighted by scores of residents in the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry report, community organisations plan to host a joint crime summit with police.
Barbara Maregele
News | 5 September 2014
A year ago, Bulumko High School in Khayelitsha made the news when learners were afraid to go to classes because of gang fights that were happening inside the school and in the surrounding area.
Pharie Sefali
News | 4 September 2014