A new "curated neighbourhood" in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is on the block but this "safe space" is certainly not inclusive.
Murphy’s law struck when, in year three of the street food fest, Nobhongo Gxolo upped the ante and set up a stall.
Readers write in about Jo’burgs new mayoral team, Naspers, and Sascoc.
Under Level 2 restrictions, homes that use between 20 000 and 30 000-litres of water a month will pay 10% more on their water bills.
Members of Jo’burg’s new mayoral committee have raised eyebrows with their curious antics.
The DA says there will be no cadre deployment in Tshwane and Johannesburg, but wants blue-chip candidates to control the cities’ immense budgets.
Now that the DA’s in charge, Egoli’s woke white liberals can feel free to bitch about the potholes.
The deputy president has disputed claims that the party’s leaders are ‘arrogant and self-centred’.
Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg, is a place where buildings like Hillbrow Flats once reflected people’s hopes. But that was a long time ago.
Adhering to normative aesthetics should be avoided when attempting to empower the natural.
Locals complain about being attacked and robbed and are dissatisfied about the lack of attention paid to their problems.
For decades the people who live and work at the bazaar have been part of the migrant system that separates families.
Tshwane residents are richer, Cape Town’s shack dwellers are up and Jo’burg is tops at services.
The party’s provincial and city structures are squabbling over prospective mayoral candidates in Gauteng.
‘Up Up’ looks through the lens of history at grand city centre architecture and tells the stories of those who’ve lived and worked in the buildings.
Businessman and DA mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba said this week that he couldn’t wait to win the Jo’burg mayor’s office and transform the city.
On Saturday the Democratic Alliance held its Manifesto Launch at the Rand Stadium in Jo’burg, and focused on ‘change that moves South Africa forward’.
Johannesburg’s hub of second-hand garment traders – run under the leadership of the African Traders Organisation – woos trendy and indigent customers.
She has been a spectator long enough to have heard how the world should be, and the reasons it is not, and the excuses of why it cannot be made so.
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".