Johannesburg faces a local government crisis, with financial mismanagement and service delivery failures threatening its ...

On the other hand, the images are not selectively culled from the shantytowns and slums that every big ... of semigration to Cape Town, Johannesburg remains the financial and industrial hub, ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

South Africa’s commercial hub Johannesburg will take a series of steps to improve water supply and stop its taps from running ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff ... Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men ...

About 20 years before Peter Otieno considered shoemaking a business, he looked at it as his destiny—to dignify school-going children in Kibra Constituency, Nairobi with good shoes. This high ...

Family Services of Greater Vancouver is there to help. Back then, it concerned working-class slums. Today, it’s much more widespread: many households are struggling to acquire property ...