Newly appointed Minister of Social Development Dina Pule speaks to beneficiaries at the SASSA Bellville office on Thursday. Photos: Matthew Hirsch “Because we are struggling, the clients are struggling.” This is what a frustrated South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) worker told Minister of Social Development Dina Pule during her visit to the Bellville office […]
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Hundreds of students protested at CPUT’s Bellville campus on Wednesday. Photo: Emihle Ngwane 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 measure on Tuesday and Wednesday. University property was […]
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The empty Telkom Towers complex, intended as police headquarters in Pretoria, is costing the public about R6.7-million a month. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee 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 admitted. Meanwhile, […]
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Zackie Achmat said in an affidavit that Ngoye and Holele were dismissed for their honesty and refusal to “turn a blind eye to corruption” within PRASA. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks Activist organisation #UniteBehind has applied to intervene in a Constitutional Court application by Martha Ngoye and Tiro Holele, who have been fighting their dismissal by […]
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Flood victims stand outside the Durban Magistrates Court on Tuesday where their urgent application for emergency accommodation was dismissed. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko 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 nowhere else to go […]
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The decision to remove Judith van Schalkwyk from office has been set aside by the Gauteng High Court. Illustration: Bronwyn Webb. A magistrate who was impeached and removed from office has been thrown a lifeline by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. Kempton Park Chief Magistrate Judith van Schalkwyk was found guilty of 13 disciplinary […]
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Mary Waters High School in Makhanda has insufficient tablets for its matrics. “Overall, the project was a complete failure for the school,” a teacher said. “Building a computer lab would have been better and would have given our learners more skills. The computer lab would be for everyone, and it would be strictly monitored.” The […]
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A money mule is a person who has allowed, perhaps unintentionally, scammers to use their bank account to receive payments. These payments are then swiftly moved elsewhere, for example into cryptocurrency, so that the money cannot be recovered. Illustration: Lisa Nelson GroundUp spoke to a woman whose personal bank account was used as a deposit […]
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The Delta substation in Hurlingham, Johannesburg, was still down at midday on Tuesday after operators attempted to restore power, but the system tripped again. Photo: Seth Thorne Johannesburg’s power network is battling to cope with thousands of service requests due to outages across the metro, with cold weather, ageing infrastructure, illegal connections, theft and vandalism […]
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The case of police officers accused of torturing Juma Igiraneza could not proceed at the Wynberg Regional Court on Tuesday after one of the accused’s lawyers failed to appear. Archive photo: Mary Gontsana. The case involving three police officers accused of torturing a barber during a raid at his workplace could not proceed at the […]
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