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![Outside the Western Cape High Court, Ndifuna Ukwazi attorney Jonty Cogger speaks to applicants urgently seeking an interdict preventing PRASA from evicting them from land they have occupied for years. Photo: Sandiso Phaliso / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2408/749536-120x120.jpg?2)
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Marketing & Media
Should brands take a stance on social and political issues?
![Activists picket outside the High Court in Gqeberha in 2022 against seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. Archive photo: Joseph Chirume / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2408/749229-120x120.jpg?2)
![Gauteng judge Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi has been found guilty of misconduct after failing to deliver dozens of judgments on time. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2408/749198-120x120.jpg?2)
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Marketing & Media
Readers prefer to click on a clear, simple headline − like this one
David Markowitz, Hillary Shulman and Todd Rogers 27 Aug 2024
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ESG & Sustainability
Air pollution in South Africa: Affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time
Bruce Mellado 19 Aug 2024
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Marketing & Media
Google monopoly ruling: where the tech giant goes from here
Renaud Foucart 19 Aug 2024
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Logistics & Transport
Supply chains should make the world better, not worse – it’s time for a rethink
R. Hamann, C.-M. Chen, J. Gualandris, et al. 15 Aug 2024
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ESG & Sustainability
Eight years and counting - sewage spills into Butterworth river
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 13 Aug 2024
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![Waste pickers affiliated to the South African Waste Pickers Association (Sawpa) marched to the City of Johannesburg offices in Braamfontein on Tuesday to demand compensation for collecting recyclables and to oppose plans to incinerate waste. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2408/746881-120x120.jpg?2)
ESG & Sustainability
Hundreds of waste pickers march in Joburg demanding compensation
Kimberly Mutandiro 7 Aug 2024
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![Queues for social grants in Kuyasa, Cape Town. Beneficiaries of the Social Relief of Distress Grant are struggling with identity verification processes. Archive photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/745945-120x120.jpg?2)
ESG & Sustainability
Beneficiaries are still battling with Sassa’s new biometric system
Marecia Damons 31 Jul 2024
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ESG & Sustainability
New shelter for hundreds of homeless people opens in Green Point
Matthew Hirsch 30 Jul 2024
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Agriculture
Farmers fear loss of land to Motsepe Foundation citrus project
Bernard Chiguvare 29 Jul 2024
![The Department of Social Development’s Annemie Van Reenen with hundreds of files in the registry at the department’s Langa office. A new app is designed to cut down on paperwork and filing for social workers. Photo: Marecia Damons / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/745389-120x120.jpg?2)
![Final oral arguments are being heard in the disciplinary tribunal of Judge Nana Makhubele. Archive photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/745150-120x120.jpg?2)
![Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers in eThekwini municipality have been protesting since Friday to be insourced by the City. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/745071-120x120.jpg?2)
HR & Management
Public Works workers picket in Durban, demanding to be insourced
Tsoanelo Sefoloko 23 Jul 2024
![Hundreds of workers who had been working on month-to-month Expanded Public Works Programme contracts marched to the Durban City Hall on Friday in protest against their contracts not being renewed at month-end. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/744841-120x120.jpg?2)
HR & Management
Hundreds of Public Works workers march against termination of contracts
Tsoanelo Sefoloko 22 Jul 2024
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![In 2021 GroundUp reported on streetlights in Kariega, under Nelson Mandela Bay, that had been off for years despite complaints by residents. Archive photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/744378-120x120.jpg?2)
![A cleaned African Penguin swimming at Sanccob's Rietvlei centre in 2018. Photos: John Yeld / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/744212-120x120.jpg?2)
![People living in makeshift shelters outside the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town have been cold and wet this week. The site is owned by the Department of Public Works. Photos: Matthew Hirsch / Groundup](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/744066-120x120.jpg?2)
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Tourism & Travel
Extreme weather in South Africa is disrupting tourism – research tracks the impact on coastal areas
Kaitano Dube 12 Jul 2024
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Marketing & Media
Olympics 2024: what new social media guidelines mean for athletes and their sponsors
Layckan Van Gensen 8 Jul 2024
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ESG & Sustainability
South Africa’s 70,000kg rhino horn stockpile must be burnt to prevent illegal trading
Jason Gilchrist 3 Jul 2024
![Local community members and supporters of Sustaining the Wild Coast and Greenpeace celebrated a court victory outside the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda in September 2022. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2407/742932-120x120.jpg?2)
ESG & Sustainability
Court asked to stop Shell’s seismic tests once and for all
Tania Broughton 2 Jul 2024
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Healthcare
Supreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
Jonathan Lipson 28 Jun 2024
![Some SRD grant beneficiaries with green ID books have been struggling to access their R370-per-month grant due to a new identity verification process. Archive photo: Mosima Rafapa / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2406/742396-120x120.jpg?2)
ESG & Sustainability
Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with Sassa’s new verification process
Marecia Damons 27 Jun 2024
![Mbali Hlophe was appointed Gauteng MEC of the social development and agriculture departments in October 2022. Photo from the Gauteng government (fair use).](https://biz-file.com/c/2406/742007-120x120.jpg?3)
Marketing & Media
Gauteng government buys newspaper space to praise MEC
Daniel Steyn, Joseph Bracken and Raymond Joseph 25 Jun 2024
![The impact of Elon Musk’s staggering generous pay package will be felt far beyond corporate America. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2406/741814-120x120.jpg?2)
HR & Management
Executive pay: The virus Elon Musk is exporting back to SA
Ann Crotty for Just Share 21 Jun 2024
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![A Judicial Conduct Tribunal has cleared Gauteng High Court Judge Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi of charges of gross misconduct, which could have seen her removed from office. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp](https://biz-file.com/c/2406/741160-120x120.jpg?2)
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Marketing & Media
News24 vs Sunday Independent: a look at the Press Ombud’s ruling
Ombud Watcher 18 Jun 2024
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Logistics & Transport
African countries could unlock billions in local and global trade – what’s working and what’s not
Bedassa Tadesse 13 Jun 2024
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