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Haphazard homes: The standardised Wolwerivier structures provide a roof over people’s heads as well as running water and electricity

The fate of Cape’s evicted

Residents of Wolwerivier, home to many of Cape Town’s evicted and homeless people, say they are not being consulted on the city’s plans for the area

Metrorail published a statement explaining that electrical power feeds were responsible for the problems.
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Commuters rebel as Metrorail fails

Power failure brings Cape Town trains to a halt across the city

The opening page of Mary Shelley’s ‘The Modern Prometheus’

Dlamini lied, says Sassa chief executive

Dlamini was ordered by the court on March 17 to show cause by March 31 why she should not pay the legal costs from her own pocket.

‘New Age’ managing editor Atul Gupta.

Gupta company fails to pay R4.2m clinic bill

Optimum Coal Mine has failed to pay a R4.2 million invoice to a company contracted to build a new state-of-the-art public health clinic.

“I went over to Floyd to try and get comment from him for the Patricia de Lille hearing

ANC branch chair, kids survive hail of bullets in alleged political attack at home

In what appears to be a political attack, an ANC branch chair and her family were fired on through the wall of their home in Pietermaritzburg.

South Africa’s social security system is aimed to assist the most indigent in society and is of no benefit to the middle class who must provide their benefits via group life or own insurance provisions.

Spotlight on social grants: The good, the bad and the confusing

For millions of South Africans, the monthly social grants are the difference between survival and starvation.

Sixty-seven South Africans have died in a building collapse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria

Spotlight on social grants: Sassa’s bid to stop illegal deductions

Every month, money is deducted from the accounts of hundreds of beneficiaries of social grants without their permission.

Net1’s competitor Allpay claims Sassa’s tender process was flawed because it changed its biometric verification requirements along the way.

Net1 – the company that runs the social grant payment system

The government’s social security payment system is managed by a subsidiary of Net1, a company listed on stock exchanges in the US and Johannesburg.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday extended the Covid-19 social relief of distress grant for another year until the end of March 2024.

Spotlight on social grants: How grants are used to back loans

Some social grant beneficiaries are so deeply in debt that much of each month’s grant goes to paying back a loan.

South Africa’s social security system is aimed to assist the most indigent in society and is of no benefit to the middle class who must provide their benefits via group life or own insurance provisions.

Spotlight on social grants: How the system works

This first instalment, part of a five-part series by GroundUp, looks at the basic details and procedures of social grants.

South African police are twice as deadly as American cops – but they’re also six times more likely to die on duty

SA officers are twice as lethal as those in the US, where brutality cases are coming to light. They’re also six times more likely to die on the job.

Cecil John Rhodes statue boarded up.

Fees and finances

Studying at UCT is expensive and many students struggle to pay the fees, though both the university and the state do try to support students.

Semantics: The facade of UCT

The academic staff

The racial composition of lecturers and researchers at UCT is one of the most heated topics of debate when it comes to UCT’s transformation.

Rhodes must fall protest at UCT.

The debate over what is taught

What should and shouldn’t be taught at our universities? The demands of students include calls for major changes to the content of courses at UCT.

The students

Is the University of Cape Town (UCT) transforming? In this, the second article in our series, we look at how the student body is changing.

University rankings that attempt to measure quality and signify universities’ relative standing are contentious because they do not adequately measure performance in the complex roles higher education has to play.

The process

What does transformation mean? In the first series GroundUp provides key arguments on the main points of contention facing SA’s UCT.