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Construction & Engineering

Families in Cape Town’s squalid backyards are still waiting for promised housing project

Mary-Anne Gontsana 13 May 2025

For more than six weeks the Unemployment Insurance Fund online service has been down. Image: GroundUp

HR Tools & Software

After six weeks UIF online system still down

Mary-Anne Gontsana 4 Oct 2024

Scores of people queued outside the labour office in Cape Town’s city centre on Wednesday. The UIF’s online portal has been offline for about three weeks. Photos: Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp

HR Tools & Software

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Mary-Anne Gontsana 6 Sep 2024

Thousands of special needs learners still not placed at schools

Primary & Secondary Education

Thousands of special needs learners still not placed at schools

Mary-Anne Gontsana 5 Jun 2024

Refugee and former car guard graduates with a PhD

Higher Education

Refugee and former car guard graduates with a PhD

Mary-Anne Gontsana 10 May 2024

Nurses Maxine MacNamara (left), Clare Wepener, and Nicky Krynauw, who work at Life Healthcare’s Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Pinelands. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19

What it's like being a nurse during a pandemic

James Stent & Mary-Anne Gontsana 2 Jun 2021

92 cases struck from court roll in three months due to police inefficiency

Criminal Law

92 cases struck from court roll in three months due to police inefficiency

Mary-Anne Gontsana 22 Oct 2020

'Anti-social behaviour' could soon disqualify some from CoCT rental units

Affordable & Social Housing

'Anti-social behaviour' could soon disqualify some from CoCT rental units

Mary-Anne Gontsana and James Stent 10 Jul 2020

Hair and beauty technicians petition to start working

Health & Beauty

Hair and beauty technicians petition to start working

Mary-Anne Gontsana 7 May 2020

Picket at Saldanha Steel over plant closure

Materials & Equipment

Picket at Saldanha Steel over plant closure

Mary-Anne Gontsana 22 Nov 2019

Cape Town's neglected council flats

Affordable & Social Housing

Cape Town's neglected council flats

Mary-Anne Gontsana and Thembela Ntongana 25 Jul 2018

Western Cape MEC for Human Settlements Bonginkosi Madikizela addressed the spate of land occupations in a press conference on Thursday, 14 June. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana

Affordable & Social Housing

We can't house everyone, says Bonginkosi Madikizela

Mary-Anne Gontsana 18 Jun 2018

Photo: Dalton Ndongeni

Public Health

Khayelitsha hospital under the spotlight

Mary-Anne Gontsana 30 Apr 2018

Police resources: there's nothing wrong with the allocation system, SAPS tells court

Law Practice

Police resources: there's nothing wrong with the allocation system, SAPS tells court

Mary-Anne Gontsana 16 Feb 2018

Bottled water and the drought

FMCG

Bottled water and the drought

Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp staff 20 Dec 2017

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Agriculture

City's food basket faces uncertain future

Mary-Anne Gontsana 30 Oct 2017

Eight years after a commitment to build houses there, the Thembokwezi site in Khayelitsha is still empty. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Residential Property

Empty Khayelitsha land to be developed at last

Mary-Anne Gontsana 31 Aug 2016