Immigrants do come to Johannesburg in large numbers, but so do migrants from rural South Africa. This is true in Vannin Court, where many of the tenants interviewed by reporters were South Africans.

A top South African diplomat said on Tuesday that U.S. demands on domestic affirmative action policies were complicating ...

When Phineas jumped out of a window to escape the calamitous fire that blazed a Johannesburg apartment building on 31 August, he was unaware that the owner of the building was the government of South ...

There were 75 construction workers on the site when the building collapsed. Rescue workers at the scene of a collapsed building in George, South Africa, May 7, 2024. WILLIE VAN TONDER/AFP/Getty ...

A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a five-story building in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 31, 2023.

Buildings like the one in the Johannesburg fire that caused at least 76 deaths have come to embody the decay of South Africa's most important city and, beyond that, what so many view as the larger ...