The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

An estimated asset class worth between R2 trillion and R3 trillion sits largely outside the formal economy in South Africa’s ...

Without access to title deeds, pay slips or even formal jobs, an estimated 90% of South Africans have cash-built homes one ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in ...

South Africa’s rural provinces are benefiting from programs to boost the rural economy and drive job creation by investing in one of the country’s most valuable assets—its nature. In doing so, the ...

A storm swept through parts of Northern KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday afternoon, destroying several homes. On Wednesday, GroundUp visited the rural community of Ngwetshana, where most people live in mud ...

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...