Large parts of Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, have been without water since late last month as reservoirs ...

Just north of Johannesburg's flashy suburbs lies Diepsloot. ... South Africa: A Glimpse Inside Johannesburg's Diepsloot Slum. 19 June 2014.

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Songeziwe Nqoshela, 28, has no alternative but to sleep on the floor of the cramped single-bedded hostel room she shares with her parents, two sisters and son in Cape Town’s suburban township of ...

As such, any manipulation of housing is tricky business in modern South Africa. Durban mayor James Nxumalo, in a recent article, said the city wanted to build high-rise social housing flats in the ...

MAMELODI, South Africa — Regina Matshega was gossiping with a neighbor over a fence between their shacks in the Phomolong squatter camp last month when a very unexpected sight suddenly ...

For want of state support or formal employers, slum dwellers in South Africa and Kenya rely on street savvy, friends and a strong tolerance for hardship and precarity to do business.

At least 16 people, including children, have died after a gas leak at a South African slum near Johannesburg, emergency services said Thursday, revising the death toll after some people were ...