Photojournalist. Contributor to @GroundUp_News. Am available for assignments. Occasionally forced to write | DM or send tip-offs to info@ashrafhendricks.com
Joined August 2013
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Am slowly moving over to @bluesky.
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28 Nov 2024
In photos: wagging tails and smiles greet Animal Welfare Society volunteers
Volunteers visit a different town in the Kalahari and rural Northern Cape each Saturday to offer much-needed services to pets
Read groundup.org.za/article/upin… by Ashraf Hendricks
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27 Nov 2024
In photos: turning rubbish dumps into gardens in Upington
“It is the love of nature that keeps us going”
Read groundup.org.za/article/in-p… by Liezl Human. Photos: @AshrafRSA
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25 Nov 2024
Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty
Sanddrift residents struggle to get medication, ambulances, and jobs
Read groundup.org.za/article/surr… by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
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12 Nov 2024
How people in Namaqualand are keeping the Nama language alive
A radio station and a school teaching Nama hope to stop the language from going extinct
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1 Sep 2024
My article: South Africa supplies Israel with 15% of its coal, literally fuelling the genocide in Gaza.
30 Aug 2024
Despite leading international condemnation of Israel’s actions in Gaza, South Africa’s coal exports to Israel continue to fuel the genocide and occupation
️✍️: @ilhamsta
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4 Nov 2024
Blooming good: How a desert garden is saving endangered plants
Read groundup.org.za/article/bloo… by Liezl Human. Video: @AshrafRSA
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18 Sep 2024
West Coast fishers say fishing policy is crippling them
Read groundup.org.za/article/west… by Liezl Human. Photos: @AshrafRSA
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23 Aug 2024
Cape Town electricity protest brings traffic to a halt: “We are eating less food because we have to pay more for electricity”
Read groundup.org.za/article/lave… by @AshrafRSA
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20 Aug 2024
Vets are leaving South Africa in droves
Read groundup.org.za/article/vets… by Liezl Human. Photo: @AshrafRSA
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16 Aug 2024
Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets
Read groundup.org.za/article/pre-… by @MattHirsch08. Photos by @AshrafRSA
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25 Jul 2024
Dogs and cats get their own taxi in Cape Town
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17 Jul 2024
Possible site for Muizenberg homeless shelter sparks alarm
groundup.org.za/article/poss… by @AshrafRSA
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12 Jul 2024
Winelands families battle flooding: “For three days people have not slept”
More photos: groundup.org.za/article/for-… Text by Liezl Human. Photos by @AshrafRSA
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11 Jul 2024
In photos: Gale rips off roofs in Cape Town suburb
More: groundup.org.za/article/stro… by @AshrafRSA
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9 Jul 2024
Exhibition honours work of late Bang Bang Club photojournalist
groundup.org.za/article/exhi… by @Ihsaan_Haffo
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26 Jun 2024
As always, great photojournalism by @luistatophoto for @AFPphoto in Kenya.
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26 Jun 2024
Namaqualand community raises the alarm over copper mining in their small town
groundup.org.za/article/our-… by Liezl Human. Photos by @AshrafRSA
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24 Jun 2024
In photos: President urged to make sanitary pads free
@I_MenstruateZA launches “period poverty” exhibition in Franschhoek
groundup.org.za/article/art-… by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by @AshrafRSA
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20 Jun 2024
Did you know GroundUp has an agony aunt?
From SASSA grants to evictions and immigration, if you have a question, just #AskAthalie!
Read her answers to readers' questions here: groundup.org.za/qanda/
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