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September 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George has published draft regulations for the banning of plastic microbeads, and plans to start phasing out single-use plastics.

Video by Carol Albertyn Christie
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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About 200 activists marched to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday to support Wild Coast communities opposing seismic surveys and oil exploration rights granted to Shell and Impact Africa.

Read groundup.org.za/article/abou... by Ihsaan Haffejee and Thamsanqa Mbovane
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Six people, including a community leader, arrested during the protest blocking Voortrekker Road next to the Maitland cemetery are due to appear in court on Wednesday on charges of public violence.

Link to the article below.
Protester near Maitland in the Western Cape blocking the road, holding cards written 'basic needs'. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks. Protesters near Maitland cemetery blocking the road in the early hours of monday morning. They are burning tires and tree branches. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks. Resident of the informal settlements kicks a portable toilet bucket full of human faeces into the road. A flame from car tyres burns behind her. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks.
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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“We don’t have to switch on Netflix to hear guns. We sleep, we eat, and we wake up with gun violence,” said Lynn Philips of the Cape Flats Safety Forum.

About 100 people joined an anti-gang and drug march in Mitchells Plain on Sunday.

Read groundup.org.za/article/paga... by Ashraf Hendricks
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Tons of plastic packaging fill our rivers, wetlands and seas, yet the large multinational corporations that produce them face little accountability.

Read groundup.org.za/article/plas... by Carol Albertyn Christie
August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Scores of people picketed outside the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town on Thursday to protest Israel’s use of starvation as a “weapon of war”.

Read groundup.org.za/article/prot... by Matthew Hirsch
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Microplastics come at us from almost everywhere, from broken-down plastic packaging and consumer goods, from synthetic clothing and carpets, from car tyres wearing down on roads.

Read groundup.org.za/article/brai... by Carol Albertyn Christie
June 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Brainwashed by plastic: from the womb to the brain

Watch episode three of our microplastics video series: groundup.org.za/article/vide...
May 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to identify trustworthy sources. We are awash in misinformation. 

In this new series, we intend to stir debate on a #RightToBeInformed being crucial to the functioning of democratic societies.

Parts 1 to 3 published today: rbi.groundup.org.za
May 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Brainwashed by plastic: Part 2 coming tonight

Watch Part 1 here: groundup.org.za/topic/brainw...
May 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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COMING 29 APRIL 2025, the first of a six-part series on one of the riskiest uncontrolled experiments inflicted on the environment — and on us all.

🎥 Carol Albertyn Christie
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Raw sewage has been flowing into the Kruger National Park for the past 27 years because of broken and failing infrastructure in neighbouring Phalaborwa. Residents have laid criminal charges against the local municipalities

Read groundup.org.za/article/raw-... by Bernard Chiguvare
March 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Musk and the country Trump says “nobody has ever heard of”
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The US embassy in Lesotho writes:
Wishing our Embassy Maseru team all the best as they take on the Moshoeshoe Walk! Embodying the Basotho and American values of perseverance, unity and democracy ..."
March 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Elon Musk is trying to do business in Lesotho, the country Donald Trump says “nobody has ever heard of”. Starlink is not the only US company investing in the kingdom: Lesotho is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest garment exporters to the US.

Read groundup.org.za/article/trum... by Sechaba Mokheti
March 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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What is the risk from stopping ARVs?

The US funding cuts will leave many people with HIV in Africa struggling to access antiretrovirals (ARVs). Here is a very useful Q&A. Please help spread it:

groundup.org.za/qanda/1052/

Thanks to i-Base and Simon Collins for putting this together.
Sign up at Ivan Toms Health Centre in Cape Town saying that the clinic is closed, following US funding cuts.
March 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Pro-Ukrainian protests on Sunday and Monday were interrupted by supporters of a rival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Pretoria, and by pro-Russia supporters in Durban.

Read groundup.org.za/article/pro-... by Ihsaan Haffejee and Joseph Bracken
February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Chaos outside Cape Town schools as parents demand places for their children. Parents say their children are subjected to poor learning conditions at Solomon Mahlangu Primary School

Read groundup.org.za/article/chao... by Vincent Lali
February 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Stellenbosch students are protesting about financial exclusion and housing.
February 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Second of day of protests rocks UCT campus. Students storm administration building, block entrances

Read groundup.org.za/article/seco... by Liezl Human
Video by Ashraf Hendricks
February 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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GroundUp photographer Ashraf Hendricks took pics at SONA, mostly VIPs, but some others as well. They're Creative Commons. Please credit Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp.
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Photo of Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka by Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp
February 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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This Cape Town crèche is being built from used tyres, bottles, eco bricks and other recycled waste

Read the article here groundup.org.za/article/new-...

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February 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Storms damage hundreds of homes and schools in northern KZN

Read groundup.org.za/article/stor... by Bongane Motaung
February 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Anger over failure of community-owned macadamia nut farm: Government-funded Ncera farm has battled drought and price fluctuations

Read groundup.org.za/article/ange... by Daniel Steyn and Joseph Chirume
February 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM