South African president Cyril Ramaphosa met senior leaders of Johannesburg and Gauteng, the province it’s located in, in March 2025 to discuss ways to arrest the steep decline in South Africa’s ...
Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is primarily funded by the Gauteng Provincial Government. The fire that killed at least 76 people in a five storey building in Johannesburg on 31 August is not ...
Johannesburg’s street renaming drive is reshaping the city’s identity, replacing apartheid-era legacies with names that celebrate black and female figures, but gaps in inclusivity remain. According to ...
Julia de Kadt works for the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO). The GCRO receives core funding from the Gauteng Provincial Government, as well as in-kind support from the University of the ...
The "Coloured" community in Gauteng, South Africa's economic heartland, continues to face barriers to full economic and social inclusion. Despite progress in post-apartheid South Africa, this ...
Johannesburg, South Africa’s grand dame city, is tilting – and political heavyweights from Helen Zille to Herman Mashaba are lining up for the job everyone calls a poisoned chalice. Exclusive new data ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost every day, on a bustling Johannesburg intersection studded with jacaranda trees, the three silver men ...