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2024年10月10日 · Interview: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde answers questions on social housing. Winde explains why R500-million meant for housing went unspent. GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
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2024年10月10日 · Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted. The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem. Text by Sean Christie. Photos by David Southwood. GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
How government abandoned a multi-million-rand community …
16 小时之前 · A government-funded dairy farm owned by the community of Mantusini, a rural village near Port St Johns, has been put out to pasture by the government. Calls for an investigation into what went wrong at the farm have fallen on deaf ears. The dairy farm was set up in 2005 by over 450 Mantusini community members on their communal land.
Using radiation to stop the traffic of rhino horns | GroundUp
19 小时之前 · The Rhisotope project, headed by Professor James Larkin of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Radiation and Health Physics Unit, is trialling a new method of disrupting cross-border trafficking of illegal rhino horn. By inserting low levels of radioisotopes into the horns of living rhinos, the project recruits a global network of security ...
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2024年9月30日 · Unions and civic organisations gather at mining company’s head office. GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
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2024年7月29日 · Criminals terrorise old gold mining area. Four years after notorious gang leader was shot by police, Roodepoort families still live in fear. By Shaun Smillie. Feature | 6 December 2023. 1 of 32. next. last. GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
Basic Income Grant: how it would work | GroundUp
2022年8月31日 · Basic income support gives women more autonomy and independence, and can also reduce their vulnerability to gender-based violence. Basic income can improve social cohesion: A UBIG is a fairer way of sharing the wealth in our society, and this can help to improve social solidarity, stability, and democratic participation.
Opinion and Analysis | GroundUp
2024年9月18日 · We should act against lawyers who undermine the Constitution. There are advocates who are skilled liars, dissemblers, manipulators and propagandists; they employ the implements of legal practice to bedevil and confuse and dismay - the judiciary and the profession should take action. By Edwin Cameron. Opinion | 22 July 2024.
South Africa needs to spend an extra R535-billion a year to meet ...
2023年12月6日 · South Africa will have to up its climate financing to R535-billion to meet the goals set by the government in terms of the 2016 Paris agreement, a new report has found. The report, launched by the Presidential Climate Commission, tracked private and public investments made between 2019 and 2021. It found on average, R131-billion was spent, most ...
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