GROUNDUP Staff at Lesotho hospital say it’s been crippled by influx of unqualified political staff appointments 6 min 0 By Matiisetso Mosala
GROUNDUP Conflict erupts over Prasa plan to relocate shack dwellers from Central Line to land used for traditional practices 3 min 4 By Sandiso Phaliso
GROUNDUP EC children endure near-constant hunger as National School Nutrition Programme dishes meagre portions 4 min 0 By Sonia A Rao and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
GROUNDUP High court grants interdict preventing further unlawful Swellendam protests 2 min 1 By Matthew Hirsch
GROUNDUP Barbara Creecy chides City of Cape Town over ‘inadequate’ public engagement on sewage pumped into sea 5 min 2 By Steve Kretzmann
GROUNDUP UIF claimants face long wait for payment as Cosatu points to national pay-out problem 3 min 1 By Tariro Washinyira
GROUNDUP Swellendam community centre burnt down as residents rampage over electricity hike and indigent policy 4 min 28 By Matthew Hirsch
ETHICS OP-ED It’s time the Legal Practice Council stepped up to do its duty 7 min 21 By Pierre de Vos
GROUNDUP DMRE rejects West Coast prospecting bid over lack of environmental impact planning 4 min 1 By John Yeld
HELL AFFAIRS - GROUNDUP Department of Home Affairs dragged to court over exclusionary legacy of blocked ID documents 6 min 3 By Tania Broughton
GROUNDUP SIU freezes Lottery official’s bank accounts over R32-million in suspicious grant payments 3 min 6 By Raymond Joseph and Ella Morrison
GROUNDUP Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his link to questionable Lottery deal 4 min 0 By Tania Broughton
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester saga — Nandipha Magudumana denied bail, deemed ‘flight risk’ 3 min 1 By Daniel Steyn
GROUNDUP Social grant payment ‘glitch’ sees desperate elderly recipients forced to take loans to survive 5 min 0 By Daniel Steyn, Ella Morrison, Loyiso Dyongman, Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Thamsanqa Mbovane
GROUNDUP Cape Town to push for intergovernmental dispute despite President’s rail devolution assurances 3 min 2 By Matthew Hirsch
GROUNDUP RIGHT TO REPLY Solitary confinement — government responds to report arguing prisoners are held according to law 4 min 0 By Singabakho Nxumalo
GROUNDUP NSFAS 'an embarrassment' - Parliament sets two-week deadline to resolve critical issues 4 min 1 By Marecia Damons
GROUNDUP Prisoners in South Africa being held for years in prolonged solitary confinement 4 min 3 By Sonia Rao
THABO BESTER CASE Top cop rips into Nandipha Magudumana’s ‘Stockholm syndrome’ defence 5 min 0 By Marianne Thamm
GROUNDUP West Coast diamond mining — environmentalists hail 11th-hour out-of-court settlement protecting biodiversity 4 min 0 By John Yeld
GROUNDUP Leeuwkop prisoners tortured by guards, subjected to unlawful segregation, court rules 5 min 1 By Tania Broughton for GroundUp
