Holding power to account
Upon arrival at the Dunstone A.R.T WINE Exhibition in Wellington you are greeted with a golf cart and a quick joyride from your car up to the start of the ‘Art Walk’. You will later realise that this was the highlight of your day.… Read more
Cape Town’s car audio crews get together for a thunderous showdown of note every year in November. The DeafRow Audio Bragging Rights Sound-Off is now in its 18th year, and the event has grown from a small gathering of enthusiasts into a fixture on the local motoring calendar.… Read more
A Ru Paul’s Drag Race diva, Latrice Royale and All Stars alum, sings, jokes, and lip-syncs in Terms and Conditions (May Vary) at the Barnyard Theatre on 19 November.… Read more
By Matthew Hirsch
While successful claimants wait for the government to secure funding to complete the long-awaited redevelopment of District Six, more than 700 further claimants might not live to see their rights restored.… Read more
Sewage pollution is believed to be causing the persistent presence of drugs such as paracetamol and antibiotics in the ecologically important Zandvlei Estuary at Muizenberg, Cape Town.… Read more
There were sergeants in the apartheid army who could bark out 30 or more words in an unbroken stream to create an extended insult involving bodily functions, body parts, bodily fluids, animals, familial relationships, and sex.… Read more
To get straight to the nuts and bolts of it, as it were, the Cape car community lives to haal uit en wys, as it is said. What that means is bringing your motor to the track and pitting your power against others, and no one is to be underestimated.… Read more
By Mary-Anne Gontsana/GroundUp
The trial in the Mowbray torture case involving three police officers will only be heard in April next year.
The case has been postponed eight times between 25 July 2024 and 19 September 2025 “at the behest of the defence”, according to the state.… Read more
By Liezl Human/GroundUp
“Alien plants are relentless, but we are relentless as well,” says Raymond Chinembiri, team leader at the Sugarbird Project, an organisation dedicated to removing invasive plants in the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP).… Read more