On 29 July, the City of Cape Town sent its final version of a service level plan for commuter rail to PRASA. With legal ...

GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.

GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.

Following the Western Cape government’s decision to cut 2,407 teacher posts beginning January 2025, the provincial Parliament met on Thursday to debate the matter. “This government can make better ...

The Bokoni platinum mine, about 60km south-east of Polokwane, has recently reopened after being shuttered for six years. A month ago, residents of surrounding villages asked the Department of Mineral ...

Known as the “bokkom capital” of the world, Velddrif is a small fishing town on the West Coast where a type of fish biltong called “bokkoms” (a salted and dried harder fish) is sold from Bokkomlaan, ...

SASSA underspent R4-billion on SRD grants for the 2022/23 financial year due to a low uptake caused by its new means test, according to the Auditor-General. The audit also revealed that SASSA doesn’t ...

The U18 AfroBasket 2024 got off to a rocky start this week after bungled arrangements by Basketball South Africa. The girls’ championship started on Monday, and the boys’ on Tuesday, at the University ...

A protest erupted on the busy R334 in Kariega after a 51-year-old shack dweller was killed in a car accident on his way to relieve himself in the bush on Monday morning. The protest was started on ...

Over the past decade, hundreds of millions of rands have been paid by the Gauteng Department of Social Development to a handful of closely-linked non-profit organisations. The Auditor-General has ...

The U18 African championships got underway on Monday after Basketball South Africa (BSA) delayed announcing many key aspects surrounding the tournament. Ten days ago sports minister Gayton Mckenzie ...

Employees at Tormin mine on the West Coast have been told payment of their August salaries will be delayed because of a severe cash flow shortage at Mineral Sands Resources which owns the mine. Oil ...