From Sandton's ambitious net-zero pledge to Soweto's solar revolution, the city's environmental initiatives are accelerating as businesses and communities embrace cleaner futures.
City leadership, police commanders and security experts are sounding the alarm over rising violent crime in key districts, calling for coordinated intervention as residents and businesses grow increasingly alarmed.
This week's City Council decision to fast-track a contentious R2.8-billion mixed-income housing project signals a major shift in how Johannesburg is tackling its chronic urban housing shortage.
Decades of industrial pollution, water scarcity, and urban sprawl forced the city to confront hard truths—and sparked a transformation that's reshaping how six million residents live.
Decades of underinvestment, political delays and competing priorities have shaped the city's infrastructure emergency—and the urgent projects trying to fix it.
New data shows local tertiary institutions are struggling to fill seats as competition from online alternatives and emigration reshape higher education in the city.
With the second half of the academic year beginning, education officials must decide on curriculum overhauls, infrastructure investment, and language policy—decisions that will reshape learning for thousands of students across the city.
As the city grapples with ageing infrastructure, transport leaders are staking their reputations on a revamped Rea Vaya system and new rail corridors—but sceptics warn delivery remains the critical test.
As the city grapples with a backlog of over 400,000 housing units, planners face make-or-break choices on densification, land release, and informal settlement integration.
Decades of policy missteps, from apartheid-era spatial planning to failed post-1994 delivery targets, have created the perfect storm of urban dysfunction.
With xenophobic tensions resurging and government immigration reforms stalled, foreign nationals in the city's multicultural hubs must navigate an uncertain future.
