The Latest Breaking News from Johannesburg

It’s now legal to grow and use cannabis. The next battle — making it legal to trade. A continent is watching.

Pacing along the dark corridors of a rundown five-storey building in Johannesburg's crime-ridden township of Alexandra, Duduzile Mthembu says she has been trying to persuade young residents to vote.

Township residents say the opposition Democratic Alliance is elitist and runs a city that functions only for the rich.

Despite mass student protests and calls from leaders, universities are dragging their feet over divestment from Israel.

For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg’s estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 mine dumps includes uranium (a radioactive metal), toxic arsenic, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc. Acid mine drainage can pollute land…

As a crucial election approaches, ANC government looks set to tap in to business in an effort to revamp infrastructure.

At 26 years old, Steve Chingwaru uncovered 420 tonnes of gold in buried mining waste. Now everyone wants to hire him.

Walking between the corrugated iron shacks of the informal settlement west of Johannesburg she calls home, Lutho Makheyi points out trenches filled by dirty rainwater holing the unpaved streets.

Explore a poignant exhibition in Johannesburg showcasing South African artworks from the apartheid era, offering reflections on the country's transition to...

Built to house a male workforce under apartheid, hostels are now overcrowded, decaying and largely ignored by the state.

On a stretch of grass doubling as a parking lot in an impoverished Johannesburg township, a group of party activists chanted "we need new leaders!"