GroundUp News: City of Cape Town wants to make the registration process easier for ECDs

Aware of the bureaucracy involved, the City of Cape Town has started to make the process for registering Early Childhood Development centres easier so that they can apply for a national subsidy; the mystery surrounding the arrest of Chinese fishing trawlers; a North West school is collapsing with t…

GroundUp News: JSC overturns tribunal ruling on Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge

The Judicial Service Commission has overturned an earlier ruling by a tribunal which had found Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge not guilty of sexual harassment; a UCT study has found that many dead caracals had suffered internal bleeding from ingesting rat poison; Fisantekraal community …

GroundUp News: Government bid to contain growth of Knoflokskraal settlement

The Department of Public Works is finalising a High Court submission to try and contain the burgeoning, self-proclaimed Khoisan settlement called Knoflokskraal in Grabouw in the Elgin Valley; Sheriff enforces court order against former Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters at her home on behalf of #Un…

GroundUp News: Backyard housing tensions, torture case setback, and life in Lesotho’s caves

Editor Barbara October joined Lester Kiewit to highlight three of GroundUp’s feature stories this week, starting in Ravensmead where backyard dwellers say they are being overlooked in the City of Cape Town’s latest housing project, raising concerns about fairness in allocation. The conversation the…

GroundUp News: Cape High Court intervenes in sensitive medical case

The Cape High Court recently had to intervene in a medical case where doctors needed to amputate both legs of a child in order to save her life, but was met with opposition by her parents on religious and cultural grounds; Postbank is to resume with the rollout of black cards for grant payments; Ac…

GroundUp News: Cedarberg municipalities struggling to service rapidly-expanding informal settlements

Cedarberg municipalities are struggling to keep up with the rapid growth of informal settlements as desperate families settle in Clanwilliam and Citrusdal in the hopes of finding work; small-scale fishers and environmental organisations are challenging authorisations granted to TotalEnergies to dri…

LIVE AND LOCAL: How will petrol price hike hit bus and taxi commuters?

As fuel prices are set to surge by more than R4 per litre from 1 April, the impact is already being felt across Cape Town’s taxi industry, with fare increase notices appearing in several areas. Speaking to Lester Kiewit on Good Morning Cape Town, Peter Arendse of the Kensington/Factreton Taxi Assoc…

GroundUp News: Central Karoo municipalities lag behind rest of Western Cape

The Central Karoo towns of Beaufort West, Laingsburg and Prince Albert are trailing behind other Western Cape municipalities; the Special Investigating Unit has launched a probe into a R66 million grant to Netball SA for a World Cup 2023 legacy project; the Clanwilliam Animal Welfare Society (CLAWS…

GroundUp News: Clothing company cries foul over liquidation bid by bargaining council

A clothing company implicated in sweatshop scandal cries foul; Philippi sees fourth vigilante killing since January; and how the City of Cape Town is converting waste into electricity Lester Kiewit speaks to Barbara October of GroundUp News about these stories.   Good Morning Cape Town with Leste…

GroundUp News: White paper on citizenship criticised by NGOs

Guest: Barbara October | GroundUp deputy editor The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has made a commitment to make voting easier for those with disabilities; a former Lottery boss found guilty of corruption has gone to court to fight to get his pension back; a look at some of the demands fro…