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05/06/2026

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05/06/2026

Part 2

March and March’s leaders say their movement is not xenophobic. They say it is a peaceful organisation. But the facts say otherwise, and March and March is playing with fire.

Its founder, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, made several misleading and divisive claims. We debunk them in this video.

Read the full article on groundup.org.za

📰Daniel Steyn
📹 Ashraf Hendricks

05/06/2026

On Friday, hundreds of people descended on the BP Garage in Actonville to march through Benoni in Ekurhuleni, to call for immigrants illegally in South Africa to leave.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/hundreds-march-through-benoni-demanding-immigrants-leave-by-30-june-or-face-different-action/ by Kimberly Mutandiro

Shops and stalls closed in Actonville and Wattville

05/06/2026

Part 1

March and March’s leaders say their movement is not xenophobic. They say it is a peaceful organisation. But the facts say otherwise, and March and March is playing with fire.

Its founder, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, made several misleading and divisive claims. We debunk them in this video.

Read the full article on groundup.org.za

📰Daniel Steyn
📹 Ashraf Hendricks

05/06/2026

Residents in Pentech in extension 23 of Belhar, Cape Town, say they have been pleading for a local school for decades. The community of about 4,000, say they are the only section with no primary or high school.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/belhar-residents-say-land-promised-for-a-school-is-being-used-for-housing-and-theyre-going-to-court-to-stop-it/ by Onesisa Khalipha

The community of Pentech say they instead want a school built on the land

04/06/2026

South Africa’s Specialised Commercial Crime Courts have grown from two courts with 20 prosecutors in 1999 to 22 courts with about 300 prosecutors today — yet convictions have fallen sharply.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/new-research-challenges-npas-explanation-for-declining-commercial-crime-prosecutions/ by Marecia Damons

New research says delays, withdrawals and poor case management are to blame for the poor performance by specialised commercial crime courts

04/06/2026

Over 100 workers in the embattled Tswaing Local Municipality in the North West Province have not been paid their May wages.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/north-west-municipality-fails-to-pay-may-salaries-for-general-workers/ by Seth Thorne

Tswaing Local Municipality says it will make payment by 15 July

04/06/2026

On a cold pasture in Mokhotlong in Lesotho’s high mountains, sheep farmer Khotsang Moshoeshoe stands on a carefully managed field of lucerne and grass.

The 7.2-acre pasture is part of an effort to improve the quality of the wool he produces for international markets.

Moshoeshoe keeps about 160 sheep, including 112 ewes, and specialises in producing superfine wool, a high-value fibre sought after on the global market.

Read the full article on groundup.org.za

📰Sechaba Mokhethi
📹 Ashraf Hendricks

04/06/2026

There was a sudden flurry of cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) by the Hawks in the weeks after they failed to pitch for a parliamentary briefing on their ongoing investigation into the lottery in late March.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/hawks-act-on-lottery-related-cases-after-being-blamed-for-delays/ by Raymond Joseph

Within weeks of missing a parliamnetary briefing, the Hawks submitted 13 lottery fraud dockets to prosecutors

04/06/2026

On 24 May SITA published a statement denying social media claims that “SITA and government infrastructure” had been hit by a “cyberattack or unauthorised access”.

Read https://groundup.org.za/article/sita-says-its-systems-secure-we-looked-this-what-we-found/ by Joel Cedras and Nathan Geffen

SITA’s internet services have more than 5,000 security flaws