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5 days ago · GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
The photos that told our stories in 2024 | GroundUp
2 days ago · South Africans voted in national elections, miners were trapped underground and homeless people were moved from the streets of Cape Town As school holidays get underway, people play in the St James tidal pool in Cape Town. Photo: David Harrison. An aerial view of the abandoned mine in Stilfontein in ...
South Africa | GroundUp
5 days ago · GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
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Dec 17, 2024 · GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
Hawks raid Free State municipality offices | GroundUp
6 days ago · The Hawks raided three of the Free State’s Masilonyana Local Municipality offices earlier this month to collect evidence of maladministration related to tenders for refurbishing a water treatment works plant and the upgrading of a sports centre. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) said the raids ...
Corrections and updates | GroundUp
Nov 27, 2024 · In this quote: “Change in rivers typically occurs slowly, over hundreds of years, but in Johannesburg’s rivers we are now observing strange behaviour from a geomorphology and a hydrology point of view, linked to higher flow rates in the last several decades.” "several decades" originally read as "30 years".
Gauteng government’s buried corruption investigation (part one)
Dec 11, 2024 · Between 2016 and 2018, half a billion rand was spent by the Gauteng Department of Social Development on non-profit organisations who acted as conduits to pay suppliers without tender processes. Forensic audit reports confirm that hundreds of millions of rands flowed to a handful of closely linked ...
Inside Gauteng’s R500-million corruption scheme (part two)
Dec 12, 2024 · July Maphosa, a former senior official at the Gauteng Department of Social Development, channeled hundreds of millions of rand to non-profit organisations and private companies without tender processes. Many of the entities were closely linked and shared directors. Maphosa is alleged to have ...
GroundUp: News That Matters | GroundUp
GroundUp’s work is, first and foremost, informed by the South African Constitution, which gives people the rights to housing, education, health, safety, justice, food and dignity. Our articles show what these rights mean in daily life. We aim to ensure more people in South Africa have their ...
List of cases | GroundUp
Jun 7, 2023 · GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.