New state housing is being built in Tshikota, Limpopo, while people living in RDP homes built in 2021 still do not have water and electricity. GroundUp found that 100 houses in the older development ...
The vacant Telkom Towers complex in Pretoria, meant to house the South African Police Service (SAPS) headquarters, is costing the public R6.8-million a month, the department of public works has ...
One way the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) planned to claw back some of its R4.2-billion in student debt was for students to pay up to R7,000 to register. Students protested against ...
The process to address the backlog of about R700-million in film production application is expected resume on 30 September. This comes after adjudication meetings stalled for more than two years. The ...
Displaced flood victims have lost a court bid to get theThekwini municipality to provide them with alternative accommodation. They were evicted from their temporary accommodation and say they have ...
GroundUp spoke to a woman whose personal bank account was used as a deposit channel for Morita Forestry, an investment scam that collapsed at the end of July. Morita called people like her “mentors”.
An affidavit by activist Zackie Achmat in a Constitutional Court application sheds new light on the role of whistleblowers Martha Ngoye and Tiro Holele in attempts to prevent widespread looting at the ...
In 2024, Gauteng High Court Judge Leonard Twala ruled that nine of the charges should be set aside, but the remaining four charges were serious enough to warrant her removal from office. These related ...
The former PRASA boss was due to oppose a bid to freeze R15.75-million in properties he allegedly bought with proceeds of ...
Producers and labour warn that closing Tulbagh factory could leave hundreds of farmers without processing options before the ...
Hundreds of children and young people walked through the streets of Hillbrow at the seventh annual Hey Hillbrow! Let’s Dlala! street arts festival. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee. Hey ...
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has stopped the liquidation of Kimberley’s Ekapa diamond mine, ...