Around the corner, popular jazz venue the Marabi Club is hosting its last Friday night show before closing down – another victim of the city center’s decay and the jarring inequality in post ...

South African authorities investigating the cause of a massive explosion in Johannesburg’s central business district have warned residents to avoid the area because of the risk of another blast.

In June 2025, a quiet but important decision marked a real turning point in African urban finance. The African Development Bank's Board of Directors approved a ZAR 2.5 billion ($139 million) corporate ...

City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero yesterday announced the formation of a high-powered task force dubbed the “Bomb Squad”, aimed at tackling crime, improving service delivery, and ...

JOHANNESBURG — A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johannesburg’s officials are coming under mounting pressure to finally reopen the city’s main public ...

Johannesburg - or “Jozi,” as South Africa’s economic hub is known to its residents - has a history rooted in the late 19th century Gold Rush. The inner city is now mostly rundown, with ...

Authorities say at least 73 people have died in Johannesburg when a nighttime fire ripped through a five-story building that had been used by homeless people and squatters.

By the mid-1990s, Johannesburg's city center was an abandoned and lawless place that had been dubbed one of the world's most dangerous cities.