location republish phone mail print search twitter facebook rss youtube copyright creative-commons menu cross whatsapp share home creative-commons
GroundUp Logo
  • News
    • Home
    • Guide to social grants
    • Guide to housing
    • Cape Town water
    • Features
    • Authors
    • Topics
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Donate
Advanced Search
  • News
    • Home
    • Guide to social grants
    • Guide to housing
    • Cape Town water
    • Features
    • Authors
    • Topics
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Donate
Advanced Search
  • Residents from Bo-Kaap protest by attempting to stop a crane from entering the area. The development is a 12-storey apartment block being built by BLOK Urban Developers. Residents said that gentrification is forcing them out - Ashraf Hendricks
  • South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to residents in Hanover Park during a walk around for the launch of the Anti-Gang Unit. The aim of the unit is to fight organised crime and drug distribution in the cape flats. - Ashraf Hendricks
  • Over 800 people were left homeless after a fire ravaged Overcome Heights, an informal township in Vrygrond. - Ashraf Hendricks
  • Over a thousand people are left homeless and one person was killed after a fire ravages the SST Section in Khayelitsha. - Vincent Lali
  • Residents protest for services including a community hall and police station in Witsands in Atlantis - Ashraf Hendricks

GroundUp Gallery

A free photo library

Creative Commons logo

Most of our content is free to use.

Find out more >>

Photos

Open Streets Mitchells Plain
Open Streets Mitchells Plain
Thousands celebrate during the Open Streets festival in Mitchells Plain.
25 March 2018
March Against Gender Based Violence
March Against Gender Based Violence
About a thousand women march against gender based violence in Cape Town, South Africa.
1 August 2018
Photo of 3rd October protest and shutdown at UCT
Photo of 3rd October protest and shutdown at UCT
Protesters shut down UCT on 3rd October 2016
3 October 2016
Students protest at UCT
Students protest at UCT
An onlooker sits unfazed as protesters hurl rocks over him towards private security during protests over fees at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
18 October 2016
Palestine March
Palestine March
Jessie Duarte, deputy secretary-general of the African National Congress attends a rally during a Palestinian solidarity March in Cape Town.
15 May 2018
Helen Bowden Nurses Home occupation
Helen Bowden Nurses Home occupation
Residents occupy the old Helen Bowden Nurses Home near the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
19 March 2018
Wolwerivier
Wolwerivier
Wolwerivier, an emergency settlement area in the Western Cape.
5 August 2016
March for Al-aqsa mosque
March for Al-aqsa mosque
Zwelivelile "Mandla" Mandela speaks outside Parliament during a protest in Cape Town, South Africa against increased Israeli “security” measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
26 July 2017

More photos

Public figures banner

ALBUMS

Animals
Tears Animal Rescue
Pollsmoor Baby Mother ...
Pollsmoor Baby Mother Unit
SONA
Photo of ANC supporters
Politics
Zanu-PF Meeting

More albums

GroundUp Logo

Copyright © 2012-2019 GroundUp.

See copyright notice on articles for terms.

  • About
  • News
  • Donate
  • Copyright policy
  • Privacy
    • Get Our Newsletter

Contact us

+27 (0) 21 788 9163
info@groundup.org.za

Suite 08SB, 1st floor
South  Block, Tannery Park
21 Belmont Road
Rondebosch
Cape Town 7700

Google Maps
OpenStreetMap