Our best photos of the year: Evictions, protests, street art – and a Minister who missed the train.
GroundUp Staff
Lifestyle Rugby unites all in Siya Kolisi’s hometown
Thousands gathered in Zwide stadium to watch the Springboks win the World Cup.
Politics and Society South Africa: People with albinism march for skin cancer awareness
Sunscreens are available at state hospitals for people with albinism.
Politics and Society Photo essay: Chaos in Cape Town as refugees evicted from city centre protest
Court order against protesters outside UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Lifestyle “People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade
South Africa: Part two in a series on the Pondoland dagga growers.
Lifestyle South Africa: Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers
No one knows with confidence how many small-scale cannabis farmers there are in South Africa, but the number is large: one organisation estimates 900,000. Millions of people probably depend on income from cannabis. Here in Pondoland, these growers have been cultivating the plant for over 200 years.
Politics and Society South Africa: Parents can’t spank their children, Constitutional Court says
The same conduct by someone other than a parent towards the same child would be indefensible assault.
Politics and Society Attacks on foreign nationals may constitute terrorism
Let’s call them what they are so that we can start to heal.
Politics and Society South Africa: Two people dead in a stampede as shops are looted
Two people died during a stampede as shops were looted in Samora Machel, Philippi, Cape Town, at the weekend.