Just north of Johannesburg's flashy suburbs lies Diepsloot ... a failed housing policy Like many informal settlements in South Africa, Diepsloot is a result of the politics of racial segregation ...

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 ...

They left behind in their comfortable suburban home everything ... But their experiment also poked at some of South Africa’s sorest spots. Were they white slum tourists who had come to gawk ...

Conditions in these slums are appalling ... 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 ...

More than 6,000 black families live in this area, which is about the size of a suburban American shopping ... It’s been 25 years since South Africa’s first multi-racial democratic elections ...

Uniquely for South Africa, its population is neither ... from recognisable brick-built suburbs, to a sea of slums, thousands upon thousands leant up against each other, made of wooden and ...

Sprawling informal settlements (or slums), which are characterised by ... and in subsequent studies in Kenya and South Africa, struggle was not so much a state of chronic despair as it was a ...

At least 16 people, including children, have died after a gas leak at a South African slum near Johannesburg ... rate of more than 32 percent, South Africa is home to thousands of illegal miners ...