Words: Kimberly Mutandiro and GroundUp Staff The future of hundreds of Ethiopian traders whose businesses were closed down last week at the Marble Towers precinct in central Johannesburg...
The City of Johannesburg has intensified its campaign to reclaim the inner city, with Marble Towers becoming the latest target in a coordinated operation aimed at...
Videos showing crowds fleeing a Johannesburg CBD commercial building during a by-law enforcement operation have drawn widespread attention after Executive Mayor Dada Morero called for urgent...
For one Sunday, the sound of engines faded in Marshalltown and something far more refreshing took over. Laughter. Music. The hum of conversation. Johannesburg’s CBD looked...
Krugersdorp lawyer fatally shot outside CCMA in Johannesburg CBD Johannesburg’s CBD was rocked on Monday morning when a 35-year-old attorney, Chinette Gallichan, was fatally shot outside...
The streets of Johannesburg Central are no strangers to crackdowns, but Tuesday’s operation was on another level. In a sweeping multi-agency raid led by the Gauteng...
Explosions, smoke and silence on the grid Several parts of Johannesburg’s inner city remain without electricity days after separate explosions disrupted key substations and for now,...
City Power dismisses transformer blast in Joburg CBD building collapse A frightening Monday morning in New Doornfontein left parts of a Johannesburg CBD building in ruins,...
At street level, it’s easy to miss the danger. A peeling building. A locked gate. Curtains made from plastic bags. But behind many of Johannesburg’s inner-city...
When grief meets politics, tempers flare The death of DJ Warras has left South Africans mourning, but it has also opened up a raw and uncomfortable...