GroundUp News: Urgent action needed so that dental technicians can finish their training

Parliament has recommended urgent mediation to end a seven-year standoff between the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and the South African Dental Technicians Council (SADTC), which has left dental technology students unable to complete their training; residents of Covid informal sett…

GroundUp News: Calls for SIU to investigate farmworker equity schemes

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been asked to investigate farm worker equity schemes after millions of rands have gone missing; nearly 200 protesters who live along the N2 in Cape Town held a protest march to voice their concerns over the City of Cape Town’s planned “safety wall”; and meet…

GroundUp News: Police and NPA found liable for murder by man released on bail

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the Gqeberha High Court's ruling that the Minister of Police and National Director of Public Prosecutions are liable to pay damages for negligence to the family of a man who was …

GroundUp News: Farmers and state clash over handling of foot and mouth disease

Lester Kiewit speaks to Nathan Geffen, director of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes concerns by South African cattle farmers that the Agricultural Research Council veterinary research campus in Onderstepoort has not sent any new Foot and Mouth Disease samples to the Pi…

GroundUp News: Thousands kept behind bars due because they cannot make bail

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the nearly 3300 people stuck in prison because they cannot afford bail of R1000 or less; the SAHRC going back to Bloekombos a year after service delivery findings, and the Silent…

GroundUp News: Cape Town’s water programme beset by further delays

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the City of Cape Town’s New Water Programme, including its desalination plant, which is now only expected to be operational by 2036; a Zimbabwean community among those arrested i…

GroundUp News: World’s largest funder of medical research lifts ban on South Africa

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifting its ban of nearly 18 months after an order to stop working with South Africa, Cape Town parentings closing a school …

GroundUp News: Draft sex work decriminalisation bill heading back to Parliament for consideration

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the long-awaited draft sex work decriminalisation bill will be returning to Parliament for consideration, three years after it was sent back to be redrafted; and the booming ille…

GroundUp News: Jamestown luxury development row

Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October, deputy editor of GroundUp News, about the latest local stories.  This includes the future of a farming community in Jamestown, which is under pressure as residents oppose plans for a new luxury gated development, while a police torture case involving three …

GroundUp News: The Morita Forestry investment scam

Lester Kiewit is joined by GroundUp investigative reporter Joel Cedras for a special follow-up on the Morita Forestry investment scam, which GroundUp reports has cost South Africans hundreds of millions of rand. Cedras explained how the scheme attracted investors through promises of daily returns,…