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Beyond the Jeppe Boys gates — A community effort to revive historic Kensington
JOBURG REVITALISATION

Beyond the Jeppe Boys gates — A community effort to revive historic Kensington

One of Johannesburg’s oldest public schools is quietly attempting something few institutions in the city still believe is possible – acquiring and restoring neglected houses as part of a broader effort to revive historic Kensington, one of Johannesburg’s oldest gateway suburbs to the inner city.

By Anna Cox
SCOPA

Joburg leaders grilled for failing to question JDA boss arrested with R321,000 cash

By Anna Cox
Joburg leaders grilled for failing to question JDA boss arrested with R321,000 cash
JUNE 16, 50 YEARS LATER

At a school where the uprising was born, a new generation reckons with 1976

By Salim Nkosi and Mabatho Marakalla
At a school where the uprising was born, a new generation reckons with 1976
OPINIONISTA

Empty promises and zero accountability — inside Johannesburg’s deepening water crisis

By Leon Basson
Empty promises and zero accountability — inside Johannesburg’s deepening water crisis
JOBURG MASSACRE

Fingers pointed at illegal miners as police hunt Cleveland mass shooters

By Lerato Mutsila
Fingers pointed at illegal miners as police hunt Cleveland mass shooters
Your must-do June 16 guide
Youth Day in Soweto

Your must-do June 16 guide

By Ferial Haffajee
City manager insists Joburg is financially sound during grilling in Parliament
BUDGET UNDER SCRUTINY

City manager insists Joburg is financially sound during grilling in Parliament

By Naledi Mashishi
Joburg residents go 12 days without water after maintenance programme
OUR CITY NEWS

Joburg residents go 12 days without water after maintenance programme

By Yvonne Grimbeek
Joburg won’t name its water tanker suppliers despite spending R650m in five years
GROUNDUP

Joburg won’t name its water tanker suppliers despite spending R650m in five years

By Seth Thorne
Tipping point — gatvol business leaders condemn Joburg’s decline and fall
TARNISHED CITY OF GOLD

Tipping point — gatvol business leaders condemn Joburg’s decline and fall

By Ed Stoddard
If Joburg fails, SA pays: Business leaders issue call to rebuild City
ECONOMIC EMERGENCY OP-ED

If Joburg fails, SA pays: Business leaders issue call to rebuild City

By Mxolisi Mgojo and Adrian Gore and Martin Kingston
Struck from the roll: What the Mathibe case reveals about due process
Johannesburg

Struck from the roll: What the Mathibe case reveals about due process

By Anna Cox
OUR CITY NEWS

Doctors use their own money to make Mayfair’s roads safer after ‘atrocious neglect’

By Yvonne Grimbeek
Doctors use their own money to make Mayfair’s roads safer after ‘atrocious neglect’
STACKS OF LIFE OP-ED

Joburg: A city that’s terrible to visit but wonderful to call home

By Hannah Botsis
Joburg: A city that’s terrible to visit but wonderful to call home
CARTOON

The Rocky Horror Joburg Show

By Rico
The Rocky Horror Joburg Show
BUDGET CRISIS

Joburg’s ‘unrealistic revenue targets’ led to R2bn unauthorised expenditure, Auditor-General finds

By Naledi Mashishi
UNSTABLE GROUND

Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out Joburg

By Anna Cox
RIGHT OF REPLY OP-ED

Young Avenue, Upper Houghton: The story that wasn’t told

By Upper Houghton Residents
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Joburg MMC faces assault probe as ANC moves to discipline him over extortion allegations

By Ferial Haffajee
As a financial fix for Joburg’s water problems, honeycombs hit the sweet spot
CITY REFORM OP-ED

As a financial fix for Joburg’s water problems, honeycombs hit the sweet spot

Instead of continuing to fund Joburg and other municipalities as they are now, elements of the solution are to be found in the incredible efficiency, strength and stress-resistance of honeycombs.

By Mark Barnes
OUR CITY NEWS

Water woes hit large parts of Joburg before planned maintenance schedule

By Yvonne Grimbeek
BUSINESS REFLECTION

After the Bell: How many Joburg executives does it take to fix a pothole?

By Stephen Grootes
BROKEN CITY OP-ED

Joburg’s unfunded budget is a ticking time bomb for essential services

By Julia Fish
IN PICTURES

Soweto sidewalk gallery brings South Africa’s visual history to the people

By Alet Pretorius
Johannesburg and Eskom broker agreement to keep the lights on
POWER DEAL

Johannesburg and Eskom broker agreement to keep the lights on

By Naledi Mashishi
Joburg’s post-election coalition puzzle could make for intriguing future bedfellows
ANALYSIS

Joburg’s post-election coalition puzzle could make for intriguing future bedfellows

By Stephen Grootes
Swallowed by darkness — how a Joburg suburb’s vandalised streetlights empower criminals
DARK CITY

Swallowed by darkness — how a Joburg suburb’s vandalised streetlights empower criminals

By Naledi Mashishi
Joburg women are anxious and fearful navigating nights without streetlights
DARK CITY ROUNDTABLE

Joburg women are anxious and fearful navigating nights without streetlights

By Naledi Mashishi and Aneesa Adams
Rise Mzansi’s Lukhona Mnguni enters Joburg mayoral race, warns of ‘gangster state’
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Rise Mzansi’s Lukhona Mnguni enters Joburg mayoral race, warns of ‘gangster state’

By Nonkululeko Njilo

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