However, the city’s inability to keep pace with this rapid urbanisation has resulted in a proliferation of informal settlements, also known as Kachi Abadis. These areas are characterised by ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.

I've also made a film with and about informal ... can negotiated settlements with "criminal" gangs, who become more like corporate institutions in the process. But in South Africa the possibility ...

South Africa’s informal sector ... a condition that most informal vendors cannot meet. Many trade on public land or reside in informal settlements, where property rights remain elusive because ...

More than 200 families from the Selby informal settlement ... railway agency Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). Provincial Human Settlement spokesperson Tsekiso Machike says the ...

Many business premises surround the sprawling informal settlement on abandoned land, apparently owned by the Passenger Rail of South Africa (PRASA). A business leader in the area who spoke on a ...

The Johannesburg Emergency Management Services fought a fire that spread through an informal settlement in Johannesburg ... journalist in Johannesburg, South Africa, covered accidents, fires ...