Here are ten takeaway points from the Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s medium-term budget policy speech (MTBPS) on Wednesday: Read groundup.org.za/article/10-t... by GroundUp Staff

A Lesotho parliamentary report has revealed extensive damage, poor oversight, and irregular compensation linked to a R1.9-billion road infrastructure project. Read groundup.org.za/article/leso... by Sechaba Mokhethi

A R43-million contract to build a new high school in Willowvale, Eastern Cape, has been stalled for more than four years. Read groundup.org.za/article/prom... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Opening night of The Haven Night Shelters’ dance production Dignity in Motion ended with a standing ovation with a tearful crowd. Read groundup.org.za/article/home... by Ashraf Hendricks

Security guards have been protesting outside a project to build pavements in Illitha Park, Khayelitsha since Monday over their unpaid wages. Read groundup.org.za/article/work... by Vincent Lali

Lesotho textile factory Hippo Knitting laid off 295 workers last month, plans to retrench another 420 workers in January, and may shut down altogether by July 2026. Read groundup.org.za/article/leso... by Sechaba Mokhethi

A transgender prisoner went to the Equality Court to force the Department of Correctional Services to provide her with hormonal treatment. Read groundup.org.za/article/tran... by Tania Broughton

Parliament has taken the first step to impeach Judge Nana Makhubele, who was found guilty on two charges of gross misconduct by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) earlier this year. Read groundup.org.za/article/parl... by Liezl Human

Every second Saturday, a small street in Manenberg, Cape Town, is turned into an open air cinema for young children. Read groundup.org.za/article/comm... by Ashraf Hendricks

Repair work has stalled at two storm-damaged public schools in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, leaving learners to study in overcrowded prefabricated classrooms. Read groundup.org.za/article/floo... by Bongane Motaung

Open Secrets, an organisation which exposes economic crimes and human rights abuses, has been issued a prepublication gag order. This is according to a statement released by the organisation on Monday. Read groundup.org.za/article/anon... by Zora Hollie

Emerging and seasoned designers showcased their talents at this year’s Soweto Fashion Week held at the Soweto Theatre in Johannesburg. Read groundup.org.za/article/sowe... by Ihsaan Haffejee

When scores of families were relocated to the Amaoti Transit Camp on Shellbrook Street in Amaoti, north of Durban, they were told it would be temporary housing. Read groundup.org.za/article/durb... by Tsoanelo Sefoloko

Every day, when conditions allow, little wooden boats, called bakkies, move up and down the Olifants River. Read groundup.org.za/article/gene... by Barry Christianson

The bodies of three miners – Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyirenda – remain trapped underground after a crown pillar collapsed on 5 February 2016 at Lily Mine near Barberton. Read groundup.org.za/article/fami... by Shaun Smillie

About 200 workers of poultry company Daybreak Foods marched to the Department of Employment and Labour in Pretoria on Friday. Read groundup.org.za/article/dayb... by Warren Mabona

The marquee tent housing a group of refugees at Wingfield in Maitland, Cape Town, since 2020, has been destroyed in a fire that broke out on Thursday. Read groundup.org.za/article/afte... by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

In September 2023 the Onrus Peatland in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley washed down river into the the popular Onrus estuary, destroying it. Read groundup.org.za/article/ecol... by Sean Christie

The long-awaited construction of the Matanzima and Nomakhwezana bridges in KwaNobuhle, Kariega, has finally been completed after being badly damaged by floods last year. Read groundup.org.za/article/nels... by Thamsanqa Mbovane

Since the child support grant was introduced in 1998, the number of children living below the food poverty line has decreased, from 53% of all children in 2003 to 33% in 2019. Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by GroundUp and The Outlier

Cape Town, Thursday evening. A fire destroyed a large tent sheltering refugees since 2020. groundup.org.za/article/in-p...

At the dilapidated, prefab Intabazwe clinic, near Harrismith, some patients are turned away daily even if they started to queue as early as 6am. Read groundup.org.za/article/free... by Tladi Moloi

Western Cape pensioners appeared before Parliament on Wednesday to ask that the Older Persons’ Grant be increased from R2,320 to R5,000 a month. Read groundup.org.za/article/pens... by Marecia Damons

580 temporary housing units erected in Walmer township last year at a cost of R42-million were left unoccupied and many have been vandalised and stripped of fixtures. Read groundup.org.za/article/vand... by Thamsanqa Mbovane

For a few hours a day, the space under the Nelson Mandela Boulevard overpass in District Six is transformed into a dance floor. Read groundup.org.za/article/home... by Mary-Anne Gontsana

Johannesburg High Court Judge Denise Fisher has been cleared of wrongdoing in her handling of two Road Accident Fund matters. Read groundup.org.za/article/judg... by Tania Broughton

The murder case involving police officer Dumisani Ndzabela, accused of shooting Khayelitsha resident Sesethu Sigonyela has been postponed until February next year. Read groundup.org.za/article/poli... by Sandiso Phaliso

A former Gauteng official implicated in corruption by forensic investigations has been appointed head of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development. Read groundup.org.za/article/offi... by Joseph Bracken

Residents and businesses on smallholdings in the Noordhoek valley are objecting to a City of Cape Town plan to buy their properties to build temporary housing for Masiphumelele families. Read groundup.org.za/article/cape... by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

Whenever the level of the Vaal Dam falls below 18%, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) opens the sluice gates of Sterkfontein Dam near Harrismith. Read groundup.org.za/article/the-... by Sean Christie and Tladi Moloi

The Child Support Grant reaches over 13-million children but remains below the food poverty line, leaving many households unable to meet basic nutritional needs. Read groundup.org.za/article/chil... by Marecia Damons

Members of Operation Dudula have been interdicted from “taking the law into their own hands” and uttering hate speech in their “xenophobic” campaign against immigrants. Read groundup.org.za/article/judg... by Tania Broughton

In March, a detailed whistleblower report raised serious irregularities in two tenders amounting to R17.4-billion awarded by PRASA to Maziya General Services Read groundup.org.za/article/inve... by Steve Kretzmann

The cancellation of US aid funding to South Africa is harming the country’s HIV response. Read groundup.org.za/article/with... by Nathan Geffen and Marcus Low

It was 17-months ago that the Limpopo Department of Education demolished dangerous pit toilets at Mabila and Dzivhani primary schools. Read groundup.org.za/article/scho... by Ndivhuwo Mukwevho

Hundreds of workers affiliated with the Maanda-Ashu Workers Union of South Africa (MAWUSA) marched to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure in Pretoria on Monday, demanding permanent employment and better pay. Read groundup.org.za/article/epwp... by Warren Mabona

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Johannesburg Council Chambers in Braamfontein on Saturday to protest the ongoing water crises across the city. Read groundup.org.za/article/hund... by Ihsaan Haffejee

A school principal in the Eastern Cape has been suspended on charges of financial mismanagement, three years after he resigned from another school where he was charged for the same offence, and for sexual misconduct. Read groundup.org.za/article/scho... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

In 2004, pro boxer Jongi Kamko lay in bed at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town with a swollen leg and an undiagnosed circulatory problem. Doctors told him it might have to be amputated. Read groundup.org.za/article/yout... by David Harrison

In the townships of Johannesburg, the sound of children playing soccer is everywhere, in dusty streets, on uneven patches of ground and even in parking lots. Read groundup.org.za/article/inne... by Mandla Ndlovu

About 100 residents of Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni marched on Friday to the Western Cape premier’s office and the Cape Town mayor’s office at the civic center to demand services. Read groundup.org.za/article/shac... by Vincent Lali

Hundreds of garment-factory workers marched through Maseru on Friday, demanding urgent government action to save Lesotho’s collapsing textile industry Read groundup.org.za/article/work... by Sechaba Mokhethi

Ngcobo residents have held several protests, urging the police to act, since Linamandla Xhosana went missing earlier this month Read groundup.org.za/article/outr... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Lesotho’s Government Assets Search and Recovery Task Team reported to Parliament a month ago on evidence of widespread corruption and implicated senior government officials. It has now been disbanded. Read groundup.org.za/article/leso... by Sechaba Mokhethi

Former and current Great North Transport employees have been having sit-ins and night vigils outside the Limpopo Premier’s Office since 15 October, demanding pension and provident fund payments. Read groundup.org.za/article/limp... by Thembi Siaga

About 29-million consumers (individuals and companies) in South Africa are in debt. Read groundup.org.za/article/10-m... by GroundUp and The Outlier

On 11 October, seven-year-old Tumelo Maseko left his Tsakane home to play with his friends. Read groundup.org.za/article/seve... by Kimberly Mutandiro

The South African National Association for Special Education (SANASE) has urged schools to re-open in KwaZulu-Natal after a meeting with Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli in which he promised to meet some of their demands. Read groundup.org.za/article/kwaz... by Bongane Motaung and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

More than ten years after the death of Michael Komape in a pit toilet prompted promises to fix toilets in schools, several schools in Limpopo are still battling. Read groundup.org.za/article/filt... by Liezl Human

About 30 magistrates protested outside Parliament at lunch time on Wednesday. They were demanding salary increases and better working conditions. A Parliamentary representative accepted their petition on behalf of the presidency. Read groundup.org.za/article/magi... by Zora Hollie