The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has spent billions on a bus service that has all but collapsed. At its peak, the bus service transported more than a million passengers in one year. But by 2023, ...

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More than 50 pro-Palestine activists protested outside the US Consulate in Cape Town on Friday, calling for America to end its support for Israel’s war in Gaza. This comes the morning after Israel’s ...

For more than 27 years, raw sewage has been flowing into the Kruger National Park from Phalaborwa. Sewers and pump stations in Phalaborwa are barely working, despite having been refurbished. Small ...

Julius Malema took Kenny Kunene to court, accusing Kunene of hate speech. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The High Court in Johannesburg has found that the Patriotic Alliance’s Kenny Kunene committed ...

Broken toilets, unhygienic facilities with rundown and overcrowded classrooms are the conditions under which over 2,000 learners have to study at Elim High in Limpopo. The only high school in the area ...

Tons of plastic packaging fill our rivers, wetlands and seas, yet the large multinational corporations that produce them face little accountability. At the Zandvlei estuary in Lakeside, which is home ...

Dozens of people from a host of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, marched on Thursday to the offices of Eskom to call for the electrification of their areas. They came from Island, ...

Hundreds of municipal workers marched through the streets of Tshwane on Wednesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya Hundreds of workers marched under the banner of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union ...

Lesotho’s Parliament buildings in Maseru. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi The Migrant Workers Association of Lesotho says Basotho nationals in South Africa are being denied medical care at clinics and ...

Small and independent publishers and broadcasters across the country are battling to survive. Google has given R114-million to a new fund intended to “help small, local and independent news publishers ...

The Johannesburg Zoo houses over a hundred species of birds, including eagles, owls, vultures, cranes, pelicans and parrots. Ihsaan Haffejee photographed them. GroundUp visited the zoo recently to see ...