The surge in gold prices has turned Durban Deep, a decaying former mining suburb west of Johannesburg, into a chaotic battlefield of hunger-driven digging, armed stand-offs, and nonstop movement ...

Johannesburg — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its ...

JOHANNESBURG — Lungile Khoza is at her wits' end. The mother of four has been without water at her home for three weeks, the kids are dehydrated and sick, and she can't run her small hair salon so she ...

In Africa, artificial intelligence and data is being used to identify pollutants and clean up the air. On the outskirts of ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Johannesburg, known to locals simply as Joburg, has long been dubbed ...