OnlyFans in South Africa: What Creators Say About Sex Work, Personal Safety and the Gig Economy
While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.
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Prolonged Eskom Outages Plague Cape Town Families
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is deeply concerned about the unacceptable situation affecting residents in Eskom-supplied areas of the City of Cape Town, who are experiencing regular and prolonged power outages. Residents – some of whom have been without electricity for months – approach the party for help every single day. Delft, Blue Downs, […]
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Training Young People for Jobs: Insights From 9 African Countries on What’s Missing
Youth employment programmes need to be built around real jobs, capable institutions and the young people they are meant to serve.
South Africa’s Anti-migrant Campaigns Use the Language of Democracy: Why That’s Dangerous
Organisations behind the wave of xenophobia use the language of participation, community and people’s power to justify marginalisation.
Elim School Building Was Declared Unsafe Almost Five Years Ago – Learners Are Still in It
“What if the ceiling or pillars collapse?” asks grade 11 learner
The Hospital Visit That Begins With a Boat
Patients in remote Lesotho villages have to cross the Senqu River to get to Tebellong Hospital
Ensuring Polokwane Toddlers Safety
The successful installation of a much-needed speed hump in Kiepersol Street, Flora Park, underscores the commitment of the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) to prioritising the residents of the Polokwane Local Municipality. This initiative, driven by the chairpersons of the Freedom Front Plus branches in Ward 20 (Susan Clarke) and Ward 39 (Ben Jordaan), directly […]
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After Six Years, Man Is Jailed for Life in DNA Bungled Murder Case
Thozamile Flathela was convicted of murdering his partner Simbongile Mancotywa in Cofimvaba in 2020
Terry Bell Was a Force for Good in the World
Award-winning journalist, activist and author dies aged 84
Pollution Is Killing Gauteng’s Fresh Water Sources
Failing sewage systems, rapid urbanisation and industrial pollution have turned Gauteng’s rivers into an environmental and public health problem
This May Be as Good as a Master’s Office Gets in South Africa
Sources close to the Bloemfontein Master’s Office rate it higher than Master’s offices in other major centres GroundUp has investigated
Volunteers Raise Alarm Over Animal Abuse in Clanwilliam
The Clanwilliam Animal Welfare Society say they are “overburdened” and are without support from the Cederberg municipality
Woman With Throat Cancer Waits 11 Years for House
Noncedo Holiwe lives in a crumbling, two-roomed mud house with broken windows and a leaking roof
Doctors Complain About Choice of Equipment at Gauteng Hospital as Thousands Await Cancer Scans
Concern about decision to buy Chinese MRI machine from local company instead of one from Philips
Court Order Stops Shacks From Being Built on District Six Land
State-owned land is reserved for land claims that will take several years to process
Unregistered Private Schools Leave Learners and Parents in Limbo
School owners in Limpopo say registration process is slow and opaque
The Cost of Racial Targets Becomes Clear When a Mere 13 000 Vaccines for 15 Million Cattle Gets Government Jumping for Joy
(Dr Wynand Boshoff, Freedom Front Plus MP and chief spokesperson on agriculture, provides an overview of factors that contributed to the development of the current foot-and-mouth disease crisis) If anything underscores the inadequacy of government’s response to the foot-and-mouth disease crisis, it is last week’s proud announcement that the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) was able […]
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How Informal Businesses Are Reduced to Rubble
The rules make it almost impossible to run an informal business legally
Patients Wait Four Hours for an Ambulance in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
Rural hospitals’ allocated ambulances park 130 to 150km away
How This Pensioner Spends Her R2 320 Monthly Grant
“Sometimes by the 15th of the month, the groceries are all done,” says 61-year-old Noah Libbie
94% of Outreach Commitments in Ekurhuleni Mayor’s Programme Remain Outstanding
What was marketed as a flagship outreach programme, in theory, has turned into a series of expensive photo shoots and political theatrics in practice. The first quarterly report for the 2025/26 financial year shows that Ekurhuleni Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza’s so-called outreach programme has not delivered on a single commitment. According to the report, a mere […]
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G20 Summit a Charade Amidst Ekurhuleni Collapse
While Ekurhuleni Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza is prancing around the G20 Social Summit, the people of the Metro live in squalor. The Metro has spent R5 million of its own funds on venues such as the Birchwood Hotel and the OR Tambo Conference Centre without budgetary approval or it being provided for in the Metro’s Integrated […]
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How a Group of Landowners Brought the Agulhas Plain Back to Life
The Nuwejaars Wetlands Special Management Area was established in 2008
Fire at Wingfield Refugee Camp
Hundreds of refugees, who were already facing eviction, have lost their shelter