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This week SAPS distributed 400 adult and 200 child sexual assault evidence kits to Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) units across the Western Cape after MPs warned stock would run out by 1 August. Read groundup.org.za/article/west... by Mary-Anne Gontsana

Western Cape police do not have enough rape evidence kits, MP warnsDespite new stock reaching Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences units, politicians say it is a fraction of what is neededgroundup.org.za

Delays in subsidy payments by the Gauteng Department of Social Development are stretching the resources of social welfare organisations caring for the province’s most vulnerable people. In some cases, staff members have gone unpaid. Read groundup.org.za/article/impo... by Kimberly Mutandiro

Gauteng government says “impossible” to pay welfare organisations on timeNon-profits wait weeks for quarterly paymentsgroundup.org.za

Young people are showing less and less interest in local government elections. In 2005, 30% of 18 and 19-year-olds surveyed by the IEC said they were registered to vote. In 2021, it was only 15%. Read groundup.org.za/article/youn... by The Outlier and GroundUp Staff

Morita Forestry — with an office in Sandton, an address in Colorado, but run from China — has scammed South Africans out of hundreds of millions of rands. Read groundup.org.za/article/mori... by Joel Cedras

South Africans lose hundreds of millions of rands to Morita Forestry investment scamSocial media influencers helped make the scam possible - and were rewarded handsomelygroundup.org.za

SGK, an extensive pyramid scheme that conned people into investing money and recruiting new members for guaranteed returns, collapsed over the last few weeks. Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by Sechaba Mokhethi

How FNB enabled people to join the SGK pyramid schemeBank employees signed up new customers at an SGK recruitment sitegroundup.org.za

Residents from the Singabalapha informal settlement in Observatory attend a meeting with families from the Masonwabe temporary relocation area in Gugulethu. The City plans soon to relocate the two groups to a site in Gugulethu Read groundup.org.za/article/gugu... by Mary-Anne Gontsana

Gugulethu residents refuse to share land with Observatory occupiersFamilies from Masonwabe reject City of Cape Town plan; say they waited 14 years for land they must now share with people from Singabalaphagroundup.org.za

Goods made in Lesotho will once again enter the United States duty-free after Washington’s tariffs expired on 29 July. It comes as a relief to the country’s export-dependent garment industry and thousands of workers whose jobs were threatened Read groundup.org.za/article/us-l... by Sechaba Mokhethi

Relief for Lesotho as US tariffs expireBut uncertainty remains over AGOA agreementgroundup.org.za

For years, South Africa has watched the same warning signs appear – immigrants attacked, their businesses targeted, communities divided, and misinformation and fear used as tools for political mobilisation. Read groundup.org.za/article/the-... by Sharon Ekambaram

State spent R600m to contain 30 June xenophobic action - law enforcement could have prevented itKopanang Africa Against Xenophobia is taking the state to courtgroundup.org.za

Recent research has found that many households in the City of Johannesburg are experiencing harm from pollution. Read groundup.org.za/article/one-... by Seth Thorne

Air and water pollution harming Joburg’s poorest communitiesFailing wastewater treatment works, ageing sewage infrastructure, smouldering illegal dumps, industrial and urban runoff and a legacy of mining activities have ruined Joburg’s air and watergroundup.org.za

Hundreds of people have been left homeless after about 60 homes were destroyed when a fire ripped through a section of Madiba Square in Mandela Park in Imizamo Yethu. Read groundup.org.za/article/fire... by Ashraf Hendricks

In photos: Fire guts 60 homes in Hout Bay“We’re breathing and living in fires here” says Imizamo Yethu fire victimgroundup.org.za

About 280,000 social grant beneficiaries still need to replace their SASSA Gold Cards with Postbank Black Cards before the 31 August. Postbank has warned that those who delay risk disruptions to their grant payments. Read groundup.org.za/article/sass... by Marecia Damons

SASSA Gold Card: 280,000 people still need to switchBeneficiaries urged to get Postbank Black Card before 31 August deadlinegroundup.org.za

Two judicial conduct inquiries have found that Gauteng High Court Judge Mncedisi Kumalo has repeatedly delivered judgments more than a year late. Read groundup.org.za/article/judg... by Tania Broughton

Judge snubs JSC over late judgmentsGauteng High Court Judge Mncedisi Kumalo delivered several judgments more than a year lategroundup.org.za

Ephraim Hlungwani is 86 and the owner of Xifaki Farming, which he runs with his son, George, as its manager in Thomo village outside Giyani in Limpopo. But because of water shortages, his 16-hectare farm has shrunk. Read groundup.org.za/article/at-8... by Bernard Chiguvare

At 86, Limpopo farmer still waiting for promised irrigation waterShortcomings and delays with the Giyani Water Project has left small-scale farmers without reliable irrigationgroundup.org.za

A group of Botrivier residents have laid criminal charges against Theewaterskloof municipality which they say has contravened environmental laws. Read groundup.org.za/article/resi... by Rasaad Adams

Residents lay criminal charges against Theewaterskloof over illegal waste dumpWestern Cape Department of Environmental Affairs says the municipality ignored a formal directive to remedy the situationgroundup.org.za

Workers at the Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation (BAIC) vehicle assembly plant in the Coega Special Economic Zone near Gqeberha have been on strike since 15 June. Read groundup.org.za/article/auto... by Greg Dor

Auto strike will set a precedent, says unionNUMSA says Chinese company BAIC is paying far below industry ratesgroundup.org.za

The Special Tribunal has declared a R9-million National Lotteries Commission (NLC) grant for a Soweto sports complex unlawful after finding no construction took place. Read groundup.org.za/article/lott... by Tania Broughton

Lottery looters must pay back R6-millionFormer National Lotteries Commission officials, foundation members and companies diverted funds for a Soweto sports complex that was never builtgroundup.org.za

Several organisations providing services to the most vulnerable people in Gauteng are unable to pay their staff and may have to close their doors. Read groundup.org.za/article/budg... by Seth Thorne

Budget cuts, bureaucracy and payment delays put Gauteng’s most vulnerable at riskAlmost five months into the financial year, some welfare organisations have not been paidgroundup.org.za

The National Treasury will unfreeze equitable share transfers to a number of local municipalities by 31 July, but Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has warned that non-compliant municipalities are “not off the hook”. Read groundup.org.za/article/nati... by Liezl Human

National Treasury to unfreeze funds to municipalitiesBut finance minister warns that some municipalities are “not off the hook”groundup.org.za

For decades, reaching the Sehlabathebe National Park from Qacha’s Nek meant a bone-rattling journey of up to four hours along rough mountain tracks. Read groundup.org.za/article/in-p... by Sechaba Mokhethi

In photos: Lesotho’s only UNESCO World Heritage SiteThe Sehlabathebe National Park is home to spectacular rock formations and San rock paintingsgroundup.org.za

Nine brass musical instruments were stolen from a youth church band in Samora Machel, Cape Town, and sold to a scrap yard for a fraction of what their value. Read groundup.org.za/article/past... by Emihle Ngwane

Thieves sell brass instruments worth R100,000 for scrapCape Town youth brass band pleads for helpgroundup.org.za