Residents of Phumla Mqashi near Lenasia prevented Joburg Water technicians from disconnecting illegal water connections on ...

A shortage of beds at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital in Kariega has meant some patients have to lie on the floor. GroundUp saw ...

Many people who receive the grant need it urgently for basic needs. Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a number of Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beneficiaries who had ...

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Sinalo Kuse from Bolokondlela village near Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape matriculated in 2021 but has never received her ...

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has slammed John Hlophe for intervening in a straightforward eviction case when he had been ...

It was in 2003, while photographing the devastating impacts of tik (crystal meth or methamphetamine) in Cape Town’s poor communities, that I first met Turner Adams. With an entire life etched into his ...

Raw sewage is flowing in the streets of Sithembile township in Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal, where residents have been struggling with water shortages for six months. Most areas in the township have had no ...

In November 2023, Metro health services in Cape Town requested the suspension of a mobile clinic after residents complained it was giving out needles to drug users. The program was halted for four ...

The Klip River has many sources. One is a stream that begins under the roads and buildings of Newtown at the southern end of the city centre, emerging above ground next to Albertina Sisulu road where ...

We started our third and final walk from the parking lot of the Aquatics Centre in Extension 9, Eldorado Park, which has not re-opened after being shut during the COVID pandemic. Beyond the lot’s low ...