The Latest Breaking News from Johannesburg

Black, Indian and mixed-race South Africans built their own sporting world during apartheid, defying segregation with parallel clubs and competitions. Archivists in Johannesburg are now working to save that history.

South Africa’s constitution promises all citizens access to adequate housing and basic services – water, security, sanitation and electricity. In practice, people from rich to poor experience persistent water cuts, sewage overflows, electricity blackouts and uneven policing. Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti and Margot Rubin are urban researchers…

From Johannesburg to the Ozarks, towns built on ancestry and exclusion show how the dream of a whites-only enclave refuses to die - a new doc shows why Britain should pay attention

Nine cities, including Washington, Tokyo, Cairo and Johannesburg, registered record numbers of very hot days last year

Love her or loathe her, it is hard to deny that Helen Zille is one of the most remarkable politicians South Africa’s democracy has yet seen. Remarkable because she has served in so many high-profile public roles – as mayor of Cape Town, premier of the Western Cape province, leader…

A court in Johannesburg has sentenced seven Chinese nationals to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa

Anglo American (OTC:NGLOY) and Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) have agreed to combine forces in a $53 billion merger of equals that will create one of the world’s largest critical mineral producers. Anglo Teck, the new company, will have a headquarters in Vancouver and a primary listing in London, with additional listings…

Comic-Con Africa has drawn tens of thousands of fans to Johannesburg

A 16-year-old in a yellow spandex Wolverine suit, claws fashioned from plastic straws, squared off against a stockier Deadpool two years his junior at Comic Con Africa, the continent's largest pop culture gathering.

For decades, the dominant theories and models in urban studies have been built from the experience of a small set of mostly western cities. Other urban contexts, particularly those in Africa, Latin America and Asia, have too often been treated as peripheral, as if they simply copy or lag behind…

South Africa 30-22 Australia: The Springboks overcame another battling performance from Australia having suffered a shock defeat last week