Maxwell Roeland

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.