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The department of correctional services says there have been fewer escapes from South African prisons in the year between April 2022 and March 2023 than there were in previous year, the period April 2020 to March 2021

GroundUp journalists Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn won the 2023 Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity for the Thabo Bester story.

Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn win 2023 Nat Nakasa Award for Thabo Bester prison escape story

How can this strategy of vexatious litigation be allowed to continue unabated?

Awarding punitive costs against legal practitioners would make them think twice about facilitating delaying tactics and malicious law suits.

Government, civil society and the education sector are called to mobilise to prioritise the strengthening of early-grade literacy due to the high number of pupils who cannot read.

Where do you take a chef for lunch? It is a tricky one. I am always meeting Mpho Phalane at events and places where her food is front and centre — a crucial aspect of some heavily curated experience elevated to the next level by her creative, honest and delicious food.

GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.

Lack of maintenance and disintegrating infrastructure put prisoners and staff at risk

This year’s National Arts Festival provided alternative light in a gloomy time