Branding itself as a corruption busting party, ActionSA said it will establish dedicated independent forensics units in each of its municipalities, with the mandate to investigate all potential corrupt activities
A party source said the ANC in Johannesburg would most likely call on one of the mayoral committee members to stand in as mayor until the local elections
A new book, Marriages of Inconvenience: The Politics of Coalitions in South Africa, takes a forward-looking view of the country politics but also a historical one
This is an edited extract from Razina Theba’s new book ‘A Home on Vorster Street: A Memoir’
The party had lodged the application after it failed to submit proportional representative council lists in municipalities across five provinces in time
This extract from the book Ten Cities details the evolution of the club scene in Nairobi, with a focus on the mid-1990s
Even in revisiting the space, I can never capture the moment, as if it were sucked into my camera when I pressed the shutter, muses Boitumelo Motau
Sources say that the PEC gave the nod to the three names put forward by the Johannesburg regional executive committee
The new offering needs a trained eye to dissect its changes
The World Bank is funding a plan to deal with air pollution in Ekurhuleni, Tshwane and Johannesburg
The ANC will likely announce a candidate to take over as the city’s mayor next week after consultation with provincial and national leaders
Gauteng has ‘no plan’ to vaccinate its 10 000 displaced persons
The organisation serves 1 250 registered organisations around South Africa, including old age homes, homeless people shelters, centres for abused women, orphanages and healthcare facilities, providing food for 650 000 people daily
The private security guards were also first responders in some cases, and their helicopters provided information on emerging hotspots
The violence comes in the wake of protests last Friday when Zuma’s supporters went on the streets in KZN
The Audi Q2 is a lot more toned down than its older siblings, but that might be all you need
Delaying the vaccination of prisoners could lead to a public health disaster
Gold made Johannesburg. Today, a lesser-known mineral shapes the lives of some of the city’s impoverished residents
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba calls on residents to support him
Travels in Afrofuturism, Themba Mkhize and an exhibition focusing on Johannesburg’s informal recyclers take centre stage in our weekly events guide
Avian flu has been confirmed on two farms in Gauteng and one in North West
Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday
Police warn against fake Covid-19 vaccines and urge the public to report any criminal activities
The hopes and dreams of many entrepreneurs have been dashed. We track some of the owners of SMMEs, who talk of losing everything they worked for
Soup for the Sick is nourishing hundreds of people too ill to cook for themselves
Mail & Guardian pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images
of 2020
Anxious Jo’burg, edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, acknowledges the city as a real place and not a horrifying stereotype
Recouping public good in the form of affordable housing from private developments is a powerful tool with which to tackle equitable access to land and the right to a home
A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global South
Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’
A project by Global Africa Lab explores the future of Black neighbourhoods affected by gentrification in New York City
Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them