From the Rea Vaya's promising start to the M1's perpetual gridlock, the city's transport systems reveal a story of ambition, underfunding, and the hard lessons that shaped today's multi-billion rand overhaul.
A contentious zoning amendment approved this week could reshape informal settlement patterns across the city's southwestern townships, but leaves affordable housing advocates divided.
From the Soweto solar revolution to new waste-management initiatives in the northern suburbs, the city is cementing its role as a sustainability leader.
City officials, environmental scientists and business leaders are converging around bold climate targets, but implementation remains the critical test.
Years of service delivery failures, budget mismanagement, and political infighting have left the City of Johannesburg struggling to deliver basic amenities to its residents.
As violent crime surges across key districts, police leadership and security experts outline why emergency response times remain a critical vulnerability.
A decade of infrastructure neglect, funding disputes and governance failures has left the city's schools and universities struggling—but understanding the path that brought us here reveals where solutions must begin.
New statistics paint a detailed picture of who is moving to Johannesburg, where they settle, and what economic pressures are reshaping neighbourhoods across the metropolis.
With winter school holidays approaching, educators and officials must decide how to address widening performance gaps revealed by mid-year assessments across the city's public and independent sectors.
As the city's Rea Vaya expansion and Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project reshape how residents move, local voices risk being drowned out by bureaucratic timelines.
This week's vote to fast-track mixed-use development in Hillbrow and Berea marks a significant pivot in how the city tackles its acute housing shortage.
After months of community negotiations, a R120-million mixed-use development on Fox Street wins council approval, signalling fresh momentum for the inner-city neighbourhood's revitalisation efforts.
While cities like São Paulo and Mumbai have made measurable progress on water and electricity access, Johannesburg's municipal performance lags behind comparable metropolitan centres.
