A roller-coaster year for the arts, says National Arts Festival CEO: Live performances at this year’s festival have been cancelled for the second year
Source: GroundUp News.
Eastern Cape parents build their own school: Baleni Senior Secondary School near Xolobeni is raising funds to build classrooms and other facilities
Source: GroundUp News.
Siqalo residents brave the Cape floods again: Home to about 2,000 people, the informal settlement experiences flooding almost every winter
Source: GroundUp News.
Elections 2021: Witzenberg a ‘model municipality’ tarnished by poor waste management and unemployment: Budget choices in Ceres favouring the administrative centre over neighbouring towns littered with potholes and sewage
Source: GroundUp News.
We shouldn’t shift vaccines away from the elderly: Less than 40% of people over 60 have been vaccinated
Source: GroundUp News.
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