Theirs is one of more than 20,000 Breaking New Ground (BNG, formerly known as RDP) houses in the province that are incomplete ...

Soweto's children call it the yellow mountain : for decades, a gold mine dump that towers over the Snake Park neighbourhood of South Africa's largest township has been polluting the area and poisoning ...

Johannesburg residents facing what has been called coldest day of year, with disaster management teams closely monitoring any weather-related incidents - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Emergency services in Johannesburg have reiterated their warning to residents to exercise caution when using heating devices ...

A Kenyan company has introduced bitcoin into what is widely considered Africa’s largest urban slum. About 200 people are ...

With energy and purpose, they rehearsed a sequence in the style of the house music subgenre born on the streets of the townships around 15 years ago and now showcased by stars like Beyonce and Tyla.

Following a substation breaking down, Eskom implemented load reduction, however, residents accused Eskom of not sticking to ...

A Soweto man allegedly killed his girlfriend of two months, then helped her worried family look for her while her decomposing body was under the bed he was sleeping on every night.

Zola residents in Soweto earlier protested against load reduction and prolonged power outages. The community claims Eskom exempts certain houses from load reduction. Jerry Zulu, a community member, ...

Mohapi, originally from Orlando East, arrived in Protea South, Soweto, in January 1994. “All my neighbours got their houses where they now live,” Mohapi said. She first applied for an RDP ...

When Soweto Gospel Choir singer Phello Jiyane heard she would be performing a show about house music, she was a little surprised. "You wouldn't expect to have that combination of a DJ and gospel ...

Hundreds of Soweto residents marched to the City of Joburg mayor's office in Braamfontein on 27 March 2025 to demand RDP houses. Picture: Jabulile Mbatha/EWN JOHANNESBURG - Hundreds of Soweto ...