4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (498+ words) The R7.6-million Seawinds park in Overcome Heights, Cape Town, which has been stripped and used by gangsters as a “killing field”, is to be turned into housing. “A year ago, we had a gang war here in Overcome Heights. People…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (379+ words) Morning traffic was brought to a standstill in Philippi East on Wednesday when residents of Siyangena informal settlement blocked the corners of New Eisleben and Bristol roads with burning tyres. The residents are demanding electricity and services from the City…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (719+ words) A water scheme that began 20 years ago to supply thousands of households near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, is still unfinished. Residents of villages around Ngqeleni say that over the decades they have seen at least four contractors come and go. The…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (672+ words) Learners from Wallacedene Primary jumped over green streams of sewage along Sono Street where Henk Boshoff, commissioner at the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), was assessing sanitation services across Bloekombos and Wallacedene. It’s been a year since Boshoff visited the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (495+ words) To kick off Climate Week, about 50 people joined a train trip from Cape Town Station to Khayelitsha to explore how apartheid-era spatial planning still influences where people live, how they travel and their exposure to climate-related risks. During the trip,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (363+ words) Khayelitsha parents have kept Kuyasa Primary School shut since Friday, demanding the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) fix drains which are overflowing, leaving a pool of filthy water in the school yard. When GroundUp visited the school on Monday, teachers…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1179+ words) St Luke’s is a much respected institution that has been looking after people with life-threatening illnesses in Cape Town since 1980. But there’s a debate over how best to provide its services. The disagreement is about the closing of the organisation’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (377+ words) “We feel abandoned. We are afraid our classrooms will collapse on us,” a grade 9 learner at Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, Limpopo, told GroundUp. Parents and learners at Radzambo have for years complained about overcrowded classrooms, the dilapidated state…...