The City of Johannesburg has embarked on a shack construction project for the poor -- with the victims of the Marshalltown fire first in line. South Africa: Joburg to Build a Shanty Town for the ...

Ponte Tower, Johannesburg’s ‘shanty town in the sky’, now has a waiting list to move in. IT FEATURED a 14-storey high pile of rubbish, rats the size of cats, sex work, drugs and dead bodies ...

Three children among 16 dead after gas leak in South Africa shanty town. 6 July 2023, 05:46. The gas leak killed 16 people. Picture ... Gauteng Province premier Panyaza Lesufi tweeted videos of the ...

PERCHED on a hill, the highest residential building in South Africa seems even taller than its 54 stories as it looms over one of the most feared neighbourhoods in Johannesburg.