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GroundUp is a community news organisation. We focus on social justice stories in vulnerable communities. We want our stories to make a difference. When we uncovered corruption at the Department of Home Affairs, the department investigated it.
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Raw sewage has allegedly been flowing into the Sundays River “for years”
Raw sewage from a municipal sewage works has been flowing into the Sundays River near Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, ...
Top achiever finally able to register at Wits thanks to generous donors
Triphin Mudzvengi successfully registered at Wits University on Monday...
Domestic workers fight for national minimum wage
"We buy in the same shops, we pay the same transport, so we must be treated like all ...
Gogo builds her own house after waiting for RDP house for 20 years
A 62-year-old woman who ran out of patience after waiting for an RDP house for over 20 years ...
Parents of child who died after jungle gym fell on him want compensation
The parents of the four-year-old child who died, apparently after a jungle gym fell on him in a ...
50 learners crammed into classes at Bishop Lavis primary school
Community and school come together to instill “values” in children...
Nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of Cape Town commuters
It's a nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of long-suffering Cape Town commuters, with Metrorail's Central Line and ...
Learners walk up to 9km on flooded NC roads, fields & damaged bridges to get to school
Department promises emergency transport this week...
“We had no idea he couldn’t walk” – shop owner who refused access to child in wheelchair
"We had no idea that the child could not walk," the owner of a Mitchells Plain superette who ...
Residents blamed for illegal dumping after 4 kids die from eating toxic discarded food
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has blamed residents for illegal dumping after the death on Sunday of four ...
Heroic neighbour saves 3 kids trapped inside burning shack
A resident of C Section in Lindelani, Durban has been hailed a local hero after he saved three ...
Watch: Quick-thinking Donkerbos residents save bakkie from blaze
Residents of Donkerbos informal settlement in Somerset West had to put their shoulders to the wheel on Monday ...
City of Cape Town pollutes its own nature reserve – Milnerton lagoon “particularly disgusting”
Two missing Cradock sisters have been found by police at a shelter for homeless people just outside of ...
Khayelitsha residents demand better facilities for sexual offences court
About 30 people protested outside the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court on Tuesday to demand a better sexual offences court...
Shop owner reprimanded by court after denying entry to wheelchair-bound child
A magistrate of the Equality Court, sitting in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, has reprimanded the owner of a ...
9-Year-old electrocuted by illegal power connection in PE
The residents of G-West informal settlement in Walmer, Port Elizabeth, blame the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality for the ...
Nearly 200 homeless after Pietermaritzburg shacks gutted by fire
"We could not stop the fire. Many of us were unable to save anything from our rooms. Our ...
Elderly couple rewards kind stranger with a meat business
Two years ago, Thanduxolo Sixaka helped an elderly couple put their shack up again after the wind blew ...
500 Eastern Cape families only have 4 working toilets
Silver Town informal settlement in East London's Mdantsane has only 10 toilets for 500 families, say community leaders ...
Students, teachers devastated after thieves steal musical instruments from Khayelitsha school
This is the second time in a few weeks that the school has been robbed. Earlier this year ...
