{"id":246014,"date":"2022-12-21T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/year-in-photos-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:08:46","slug":"the-groundup-roundup-a-year-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-groundup-roundup-a-year-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The GroundUp roundup: a year in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Marecia Damons<\/p>\n

Zubaida Adams and her family have been trading at the Salt River Market for more than 50 years. Traders at the historic Salt River Market <\/a>are concerned about their livelihoods after being excluded from new City of Cape Town development plans.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

Plant poaching has become big business. In the Northern Cape, rare succulents are being stolen<\/a> for the international illegal market. Some to extinction. On 1 February, The police\u2019s Springbok Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit confiscated over 5,500 conophytum plants. Also see our video story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Adel van Niekerk<\/p>\n

The Gauteng health system is in crisis. Cancer patients often die while waiting months for urgent treatment. There are numerous accusations of staff mistreating patients, even tying a patient to a bench. Health workers themselves complain that the load is too much and that the province\u2019s health leadership is missing in action. Watch our video series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

Protesters wearing Ndifuna Ukwazi T-shirts protest during the \u201chousing Indaba<\/a>\u201d held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on 8 April. At the same time, about 100 people from various land occupations protested outside the event demanding to be included in the meeting.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

Over 1,000 people lost their homes<\/a> after a fire engulfed shacks in Langa<\/a>, an informal settlement in Cape Town on 16 April 2022.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Steve Kretzmann<\/p>\n

Novangele Nyikana holds her baby daughter, who spent three weeks in hospital with diarrhoea, in May. After a recent spike in diarrhoea<\/a> cases among children in Cape Town, public heath experts were concerned that this was linked to sewage spills.<\/p>\n

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Photo: DeLovie Kwagala<\/p>\n

Sex workers<\/a> in Springs in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng say they are forced to seek illegal abortions because of the stigma and poor treatment they receive at clinics.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

A blue shack stands in Knoflokskraal<\/a>, a 1,800 hectare piece of land in Grabouw that was first occupied in June 2020.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana<\/p>\n

This is an empty toilet stall filled with dirty portable toilets in Marikana informal settlement<\/a> in Cape Town in June.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee<\/p>\n

A protester at the Union Buildings in Pretoria protests against the slow pace of government reform in the cannabis industry<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ezekiel Kekana<\/p>\n

Cobbler Eric Poku, also known as the \u201cshoe doctor\u201d<\/a>, has been mending shoes in Pretoria Central for twenty years.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

Children in Gugulethu in Cape Town build and race go-karts<\/a> during a tournament in November.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee<\/p>\n

An athlete gets his eyes checked during the National Special Olympics Summer Games<\/a> held in Polokwane in November.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mkhuseli Sizani<\/p>\n

Lesley Barnard had been living with his wife next to this lake in Gqeberha for seven years when he was photographed in October. The couple are homeless<\/a>. \u201cAfter I lost my job I came here with my wife and lived in my red bakkie. I have been surviving by fishing here in the lake,\u201d Barnard said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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