Should Coca-Cola Pay for Plastic Pollution?
Episode five in GroundUp’s video series on microplastics
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Corruption Fight Put at “Risk” by Moving Special Tribunal
Move from Joburg to Pretoria “worrying” and a “blow to its effectiveness”
Lesotho Aims for 10% Tariff on Exports to US
Government relieved by reduction from threatened 50% to 15%
Emfuleni Loses Outstanding Traffic Fine Data
The traffic department of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) is facing total collapse after a service provider removed all its traffic control equipment and related data. As a result, the Department no longer has access to information on outstanding fines issued from 2021 until 16 July this year. The removed […]
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Climate Projects in South Sudan Can Turn Deadly
Climate adaptation projects in high conflict areas like South Sudan work best if they’re designed to help communities manage many problems at once.
Carletonville Left in the Dark for More Than a Month
Small businesses and residents are suffering after prolonged power cuts
Ekurhuleni Councillor Wins Prestigious Charity Title
A Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) councillor in the Ekurhuleni Metro Council, Ms Denise Janse van Rensburg, has won the prestigious Charity Title at the Mrs Commonwealth South Africa pageant. The competition was held on Saturday, 2 August, at the Da Vinci Hotel in Sandton. The Freedom Front Plus warmly congratulates Ms Janse van Rensburg […]
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Council Investigations Into Councillors Mrqhuli and Lento
The GOOD Party in George expresses its concern over the misuse of disciplinary processes to target councillors for fulfilling their duties to the communities they were elected to serve.
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Stopping People From Letting Their Cattle Graze Amounts to Eviction
The ruling applies to ESTA occupiers’ rights to graze cattle
“Dishonest” Judge Makhubele Faces Impeachment
JSC upholds Tribunal ruling. Now Parliament will have to decide Makhubele’s fate
Celebrating Greatness: Mlaba and Maharaj Take Top Honours at CSA Awards
JOHANNESBURG: Spin took centre stage at the 2024/25 Cricket South Africa (CSA) Professional Awards on Thursday evening as Proteas Women’s left-arm...
Contractor Cancels Emfuleni’s Financial System Due to Non-payment
The Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) has sunk even deeper into the quagmire as the contractor BCX Solar, which manages the Municipality’s financial system, cancelled its services due to non-payment. Emfuleni paid the R3,6 million licence fee, but failed to settle the system’s maintenance fees. With the financial system down, no […]
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We Demand Intervention by Police Commissioner After Attack on Bothaville Woman
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) requested urgent intervention by the Free State Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Baile Motswenyane, following a horrific attack on a 60-year-old woman in Bothaville. According to media reports, she was brutally attacked with a hammer and axe, and was possibly sexually assaulted. She was taken off the ventilator on Wednesday […]
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Merafong Mayor Promises to Restore Welverdiend’s Power
The Mayor of Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela), Ms Nozuko Best, has undertaken to restore electricity supply to Welverdiend by Sunday (3 August). Residents have not had power for 33 days. This undertaking was made during a heated council meeting where the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) put significant pressure on her to remedy […]
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Rail Theft Case: Accused Juggles Lawyers, Creating Further Five-Month Delay
A trial over the theft of 42km of railway line in the Eastern Cape has already been six years in the making
Holocaust Centre Urged to Recognise Genocide in Gaza
Centre director alarmed by humanitarian situation, but says “the designation of genocide is a legal matter”
Gambling Boss Quits After Forensic Audit
The National Gambling Board’s chief strategic advisor Caroline Kongwa has resigned. She earned R3.4-million last year.
Cape Town Social Housing: Tenants Intimidated
GOOD Statement by Axolile Notywala,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor 31 July 2025 The GOOD Party strongly condemns the targeting and intimidation of social housing tenants in Cape Town. As we approach Women’s Month, we are reminded of the ongoing struggle for dignity, justice, and safety, particularly for poor and working-class women who continue to […]
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The DA’s Dangerous Double Standard
GOOD Statement by Roscoe Palm,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor 31 July 2025 Yesterday’s scenes of violence in the City of Cape Town Council once again highlighted the DA’s hypocrisy, the double standard they apply when in opposition versus when they are in power. Back in March 2015, the DA rightly condemned the so called […]
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Johannesburg Council: Support for Public Participation on Killarney Country Club
GOOD Statement by Matthew Cook,GOOD National Chairperson and City of Johannesburg Councillor 31 July 2025 Today, the Johannesburg Council approved the initiation of a public participation process on the possible lease or disposal of the Killarney Country Club, a motion the GOOD Party fully supports. The site in question spans over 111 hectares of prime […]
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Joburg Clinic Staff Make Me Ashamed to Be an Immigrant
Each time I take my daughter to the clinic, immigrants are told to wait while South Africans are served first
The Exploitation of E-hailing and Minibus Taxi Drivers
GOOD Speech by Roscoe Palm,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor 30 July 2025 *Note to Editors: This speech was delivered during today’s City of Cape Town Full Council Meeting Speaker, this speech is dedicated to the hundreds of working-class e-hailing drivers who are extorted by their algorithmic bosses like Bolt, Uber and others, as well […]
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Hundreds of Households in Kariega Left in the Dark
Residents believe they are being targeted unfairly for “load reduction”
“Fact-Finding” MPs Must Answer for Their Silence Over Starvation in Gaza
GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 30 July 2025 As images of starving children emerge from Gaza and the International Court of Justice continues to weigh evidence of genocide, the GOOD Party calls on the Members of Parliament who travelled to Israel in April under the guise of a “fact-finding” mission to answer one simple […]
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