Residents of Phumla Mqashi near Lenasia prevented Joburg Water technicians from disconnecting illegal water connections on ...

A shortage of beds at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital in Kariega has meant some patients have to lie on the floor. GroundUp saw ...

Many people who receive the grant need it urgently for basic needs. Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a number of Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beneficiaries who had ...

My elderly relative is living in a frail care facility. The staff took her SASSA card to buy "extra things" not provided by the home, like snacks, etc. But they never provide receipts, even after I ...

It was in 2003, while photographing the devastating impacts of tik (crystal meth or methamphetamine) in Cape Town’s poor communities, that I first met Turner Adams. With an entire life etched into his ...

Raw sewage is flowing in the streets of Sithembile township in Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal, where residents have been struggling with water shortages for six months. Most areas in the township have had no ...

In November 2023, Metro health services in Cape Town requested the suspension of a mobile clinic after residents complained it was giving out needles to drug users. The program was halted for four ...

We started our third and final walk from the parking lot of the Aquatics Centre in Extension 9, Eldorado Park, which has not re-opened after being shut during the COVID pandemic. Beyond the lot’s low ...

Endangered succulents in the Richtersveld have been given a lifeline from poaching, mining, overgrazing, and climate change. The Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden in Sendelingsdrif opened in August ...

West Coast fishers and environmental activists have gone to court to try to stop French multinational, TotalEnergies, from exploring for oil and gas off the coast. The Aukotowa small-scale fisheries ...

The Klip River has many sources. One is a stream that begins under the roads and buildings of Newtown at the southern end of the city centre, emerging above ground next to Albertina Sisulu road where ...