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Loeries Creative Week

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The finalists for the iPendoring Awards 2025 have officially been announced (Image supplied)

Pendoring

iPendoring Awards 2025 finalists announced

3 days

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Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries2025 Night 1 | All the winners

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These blocks of flats in Kalk Bay, built in the 1940s, have been inhabited by generations of fishing families. The families are concerned that high water bills are threatening their ability to keep living here. Photos: Liezl Human

Food, Water & Energy Security

We’re being pushed out, say Kalk Bay fishing families

Liezl Human 9 Oct 2025

Dozens of people, many of them health workers, picketed outside Red Cross Hospital on Thursday. Photos: Matthew Hirsch

Ethics & Medicolegal

Health workers picket for flotilla to be protected

Matthew Hirsch 3 Oct 2025

Source: The Polihali Dam wall under construction. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Villagers lodge complaint with African Development Bank against Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Sechaba Mokhethi 29 Sep 2025

Tando Poni, Samwu’s regional secretary, addresses a crowd of workers on Tuesday, instructing them to return to work. Photo: Johnnie Isaacs / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Municipal strike called off in Buffalo City

Johnnie Isaac 25 Sep 2025

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Labour Law

High Court clarifies critical interpretation of employer immunity under Coida

Mtho Maphumulo 23 Sep 2025

Media

The secret to brand success: Going deeper than meme culture

Simon Spreckley 18 Sep 2025

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. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Activists march against Shell’s oil exploration

Ihsaan Haffejee and Thamsanqa Mbovane 17 Sep 2025

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Higher Education

"War room" for 2026 academic year

16 Sep 2025

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Infectious Diseases

Nigerian doctors take up strike action over wages and welfare

15 Sep 2025

Gauteng MEC for Education Matome Chiloane promised parents a new school. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro

Primary & Secondary Education

Parents shut down school for weeks

Kimberly Mutandiro 8 Sep 2025

A protest outside the Civic Centre in Cape Town in August after the announcement that the Dial-a-Ride service would be cut back. Archive photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana

Health & Social Welfare

City of Cape Town pauses decision to cut Dial-a-Ride services

Tania Broughton and Mary-Anne Gontsana 8 Sep 2025

Refuse workers block the gates to Durban’s solid waste depot. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Durban waste workers protest over salary cuts

Tsoanelo Sefoloko 3 Sep 2025

Hundreds of people protested outside the Cape Town Civic Centre on Monday. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsala

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Disability organisations protest against Dial-a-Ride cuts

Mary-Anne Gontsana 26 Aug 2025

Protesters gathered outside the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s offices in Cape Town on Thursday. Photos: Matthew Hirsch

Coal, Oil & Gas

Calls for Parks Tau to ban coal exports to Israel

Matthew Hirsch 22 Aug 2025

About 80 people gathered in Rosebank to protest against Standard Bank and TotalEnergies’ investment in fossil fuels. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro

Climate Change

Climate protesters demand reparations from Standard Bank for fossil fuel investments

Kimberly Mutandiro 20 Aug 2025

Energy

SA’s electricity price is soaring. Why protests are often the only way for people to be heard

Luke Sinwell 18 Aug 2025

Cape Union Mart and pro-Palestine activists gear up for court battle

Legal

Cape Union Mart and pro-Palestine activists gear up for court battle

Matthew Hirsch and Daniel Steyn 11 Aug 2025

Infrastructure & Utilities

Limpopo villagers block road to protest three-month water outage

Judas Sekwela 23 Jul 2025

Boundless and NSPCA ‘Jack the Durban July’ to expose cruelty in horse racing

Advertising

Boundless and NSPCA ‘Jack the Durban July’ to expose cruelty in horse racing

Issued by Boundless 15 Jul 2025

#WPRD2025 | Ogilvy PR & Influence's MD, Samantha Presbury: PR and its vital role in Africa

World PR Day

#WPRD2025 | Ogilvy PR & Influence's MD, Samantha Presbury: PR and its vital role in Africa

Robin Fredericks 14 Jul 2025

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Law Practice

#YouthMonth: Baker McKenzie candidate attorneys’ shared pursuit of justice and progress

Shan Radcliffe 30 Jun 2025

Pet Express launches on Mr D – because your pets deserve instant care too

Food & bev. services

Pet Express launches on Mr D – because your pets deserve instant care too

Issued by aHead Marketing Services 30 Jun 2025

Social Media

WhatsApp introducing advertising is a potentially lucrative but risky move

Yusuf Oc and Janina Steinmetz 25 Jun 2025

Image: Lebohang Ramokonopi, candidate attorney at Bowmans - source:

Law Practice

#YouthMonth: Bowmans' Lebohang Ramokonopi - encouraging accountability and civic responsibility

Shan Radcliffe 24 Jun 2025

Anelisa Zungu, candidate attorney at Herold Gie Attorneys

Law Practice

#YouthMonth: 'Change happens when young people believe their voices matter' - Anelisa Zungu

Shan Radcliffe 13 Jun 2025

Zapiro, SA’s most-awarded cartoonist, receives Honorary Doctorate in Education from University of Pretoria

Higher Education

Zapiro, SA’s most-awarded cartoonist, receives Honorary Doctorate in Education from University of Pretoria

Issued by University of Pretoria 27 May 2025

Donald Chauke from Demographicia asks if Nedbank’s pink tax campaign that takes on gender pricing is enough (Image credit: Nedbank)

Marketing

Nedbank’s pink tax campaign takes on gender pricing but is it enough?

15 May 2025

Thousands of teachers march against budget cuts

Primary & Secondary Education

Thousands of teachers march against budget cuts

Ihsaan Haffejee 25 Apr 2025

Legislation & Regulation

How a missed deadline keeps Bafana Bafana's World Cup hopes alive

Lesedi Mphahlele and Sello Ramanyana 22 Apr 2025

Source: Facebook. Grabouw Khoisan Council.

Property

Future of Khoisan settlement in Grabouw hangs in the balance

Liezl Human 24 Apr 2025

Hot 102.7FM funds urgent medical care for child assault survivor

Radio & Audio

Hot 102.7FM funds urgent medical care for child assault survivor

Issued by HOT 102.7FM 9 Apr 2025

Same challenges, different year: When will higher education in South Africa truly transform?

Higher Education

Same challenges, different year: When will higher education in South Africa truly transform?

Issued by EDGE Education 7 Apr 2025

Students sleeping outside Cape Town’s CPUT campus ‘failed to meet accommodation requirements’

Higher Education

Students sleeping outside Cape Town’s CPUT campus ‘failed to meet accommodation requirements’

Siyabonga Goni 20 Mar 2025

Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse

Aaron Ross, Tim Cocks and Vivianne Wandera 13 Mar 2025

Students protesting at the gates of eThekwini TVET College’s Centec campus in Morningside on Monday, demand an urgent solution to their accommodation crisis. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp

Higher Education

Durban students protest housing crisis

Tsoanelo Sefoloko 25 Feb 2025

Chaos outside Cape Town schools as parents demand places for their children

Primary & Secondary Education

Chaos outside Cape Town schools as parents demand places for their children

Vincent Lali 21 Feb 2025

UCT protests: University rejects blanket fee relief, warns against disruptions

Higher Education

UCT protests: University rejects blanket fee relief, warns against disruptions

20 Feb 2025

UCT rocked by student protests against fee blocks, housing crisis

Higher Education

UCT rocked by student protests against fee blocks, housing crisis

17 Feb 2025

Western Cape sees R200m investment boost for student housing

Higher Education

Western Cape sees R200m investment boost for student housing

17 Feb 2025

Students disrupt classes amid housing crisis

Higher Education

Students disrupt classes amid housing crisis

Sandiso Phaliso and Joseph Chirume 12 Feb 2025

CPUT students protest against their “dire” accommodation

Higher Education

CPUT students protest against their “dire” accommodation

Marecia Damons 10 Feb 2025

The International Criminal Court building is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, 16 January 2019. Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

Criminal Law

What is the International Criminal Court?

Stephanie van den Berg 7 Feb 2025

Climate Change

The impact of Donald Trump’s anti-climate measures on our heating planet

Bruce Campbell 6 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Smart telematics use can mitigate e-commerce growth risks

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Smart telematics use can mitigate e-commerce growth risks

Justin Manson 31 Jan 2025

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Climate Change

Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world

Oscar Berglund and Tie Franco Brotto 7 Jan 2025

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Healthcare

South African activists unite in global protests demanding immediate release of Gaza paediatrician Abu-Safiyah

Katja Hamilton 6 Jan 2025

Source: © the Workers Union John Botha, joint-CEO of Global Business Solutions, emphasises the importance of collaboration to mitigate the effects of retrenchments

Management & Leadership

Rethinking retrenchments though collaboration and a combination approach

John Botha 27 Dec 2024