Masiphumelele residents who have been promised a new mobile police station will have to wait until the police decide it’s safe to install it.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 12 November 2015
Since the Communiversity opened its doors in Vrygrond in 2012, nearly 200 young people have graduated with new skills, ranging from maths to first aid and food gardening.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 12 November 2015
Some of the families who accepted an offer from the City of Cape Town to move from Blikkiesdorp to Wolwerivier in September, say they want to move again.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 12 November 2015
There was utter chaos at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) on Wednesday when riot police clashed with student protesters and used rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas. Ashraf Hendricks documents the day-long standoff where a building was set alight, fires started and rocks thrown at police and private security. The protests were triggered by an email from the Chairperson of Council, which criticised the #FeesMustFall movement and said the protesters needed to engage with the SRC in order to have a special council meeting.
Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
News | 12 November 2015
About 150 students from iQhayiya High School in Khayelitsha marched to the Western Cape Department of Education to demand an answer from the acting deputy director, Benjamin Schereka, to their list of demands.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 11 November 2015
Chaos erupted at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) today as police used rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades against students protesting against the stand taken by the head of the university council.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 11 November 2015
Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades today against waste pickers protesting at a dump site in Pietermaritzburg against plans to stop them collecting on the site.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 11 November 2015
Residents of Garden City in Mfuleni braved chilly weather on Tuesday evening to voice their demands about housing to provincial government representatives.
Siyavuya Khaya
News | 11 November 2015
Every weekday morning, Kungile Mzwakadi, a 48-year-old security guard working in the city centre, takes the 5:20am train from Langa to Cape Town. For his journey to and from work, Mzwakadi spends R150 on a monthly train ticket.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 11 November 2015
Willowvale resident No-Italy Gola, 54, used a machete to fight off the man who tried to rape her. Many other women have not managed to thwart their attackers in this town where at least two rapes are reported to the police each week.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 11 November 2015
Westlake residents are angry at the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of Malawian Alfred Fonde on 8 March 2015.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 10 November 2015
Playlisted on many radio stations across the country and igniting stages in Cape Town, the Cool Kids are a Khayelitsha-based four-man crew combining DJ skills, music producing and event management. What is more, they have done it their own way.
Zethu Gqola
News | 10 November 2015
The disruption of a University of Cape Town senate meeting yesterday by about 150 protesters has been condemned by the Black Academic Caucus and the UCT Academic Union, as well as by Dean of Humanities Sakhela Buhlungu.
GroundUp Staff
News | 10 November 2015
Students disrupted a meeting of the University of Cape Town (UCT) senate today and threw water bottles at vice-chancellor Max Price when he refused to release workers to attend a mass meeting.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 9 November 2015
No vacant posts in Eastern Cape public hospitals and clinics are to be filled until December, according to a departmental circular. The Rural Health Advocacy Project fears that if such measures continue it could have “catastrophic consequences for health care”, especially in the rural areas.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 9 November 2015
Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow minister for police, MP Zakhele Mbhele, replies to Murray Hunter's DA's shadow bill misses the key point on the National Key Points Act.
Zakhele Mbhele
News | 9 November 2015