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

GroundUp reported two weeks ago on the lengthy queues at the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Khayelitsha branch ...

A government-funded macadamia nut farm in Ncera, Eastern Cape, has failed to get off the ground after two decades, despite hundreds of millions of rands in public funds invested in the project. Its ...

“The Sea is in our Blood” exhibition at the Olympia Gallery in Kalk Bay displays historical photographs of the indigenous ...

Former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) chief risk officer Marubini Ramatsekisa has failed in his bid to overturn an order ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Health has admitted that the condition at the Colchester clinic is not fit for purpose.

This is a thinly veiled reference to the signing into law of the Expropriation Act by President Cyril Ramaphosa in January.

Bongisiwe Slangwe said her place leaks every day and she has to put out buckets. “We spend time mopping the corridors, especially at the weekend when most people are not at work and the learners are ...

There is no single person who could be described as the founder of the Right2Know Campaign, but Mark Weinberg (1974–2025) ...

Groundup asked educationist Paula Ensor to provide a summary of the recently passed Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act ...

The Auwal Mosque in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, was established in 1794 and is the oldest mosque in the country. A hotel development ...

Goal 50 is the second ECD built with tyres. The first was the Ulwazi Educare in Delft, built in 2022. Goal 50 is close to the ...