Pikitup has enlisted the help of security guards to protect contract workers who are clearing a backlog of refuse as the four-week strike continues.
Many obstacles stand in the way of Jo’burg’s nonmotorised project, but it’s a good start.
Our metros are killing us. Poor planning means that the heat islands trap air pollution – but SA’s cities think about ways to bring temperatures down.
People should not be drawing together just out of fear but to fight against real threats to their future.
Graeme Williams returns to track changes in the city in colour.
Not even Google can agree which are the world’s top cities: New York? London? Barcelona? Jo’burg? Berlin? São Paulo?
The government has left housing in Jo’burg’s inner city in the hands of the private sector.
Tumelo Komape, known to the Twittersphere as TK, has the unenviable task of responding to an entire city’s complaints and frustrations.
The upcoming AU summit in South Africa will likely see issues such as Boko Haram and the Burundi protests steal attention away from development talks.
A series of images capturing the warts and warmth of Africa’s tallest housing block is up for a 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography prize.
Mayor Parks Tau’s greatest success is an electricity plan that makes Johannesburg less dependent on Eskom.
SA’s de facto capital has announced bold plans to change the lives of its citizens. But not everyone is on board, as events on the same day showed.
Foreign nationals are pleading with the government to do something after they received smses that "Zulus are coming to kill foreigners".
Johannesburg’s long-running legal battle over its obligations to evictees have increasingly become uncomfortably clear to its functionaries.
The City of Gold’s ever-evolving architecture symbolises the values of a society in flux.
A taste of the platteland could also include some hard work.
The City of Gold has retained its position as Africa’s most visited city internationally, a study has shown.
A look at a series of books by two authors who mission onto the streets of Johannesburg to discover the vibrancy that makes the city a home for many.
The first Social Media Week Johannesburg will join dozens of other cities in an event to aid people to achieve more in a "hyper-connected" world.
We don’t help each other because of a lack of trust but we must stop being so suspicious – we have to help each other; we need each other.
Concept design duo Jana + Koos have drawn inspiration from the city of Johannesburg for their current collection, titled ‘City of Gold Diggers’.
Women migrants have carved out a peculiar niche in the strangeness of the city of Johannesburg – a part of it, but also apart
Four armed men tried to hijack wheelchair tennis sensation Lucas Sithole and his brother on Friday night.
Several areas in Johannesburg are flooded, says the Gauteng provincial government, and emergency services are working to provide aid.
Major cities in developing countries struggle to attract funds from international financing institutions, says Mayor Parks Tau.
A new tourist initiative
takes off in one of the city’s most vibrant neighbourhoods.
An urban jungle of veld, parks and farms makes Johannesburg
a great city for beginner bikers.
America’s old-school mobsters have nothing on Jo’burg. Guys like Radovan Krejcir have been painting the town blood-red since the early 1900s.
Hundreds of people went to pay their respects at Nelson Mandela’s Houghton home with candles and songs soon after the news of his death.
Johannesburg street traders hugged, sang and screamed with joy when the Constitutional Court ruled they could be allowed back to trade in the city.
Despite condemnation from numerous groups, the police say they have been successful in "cleaning" the Johannesburg city centre’s streets of hawkers.
Chasing vendors off the streets and depriving them of their livelihoods is not the way to go about cleaning up the city streets.