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South African cities week

We hear from South Africa's cities 25 years after the fall of apartheid

25 October 2019

  • Some readers feel that the ‘rainbow nation’ envisaged during Nelson Mandela’s era of politics is a long-term aspiration rather than something that has been achieved.

    'I live in a better Cape Town than my parents did': readers on South Africa's cities after apartheid

  • Are You My Mother City? Cape Town, by Brandan Reynolds

    Cape Town: Are You My Mother City? – a cartoon

  • Photos to accompany Mia Malan story on Child Rape in Diepsloot. Photo Delwyn Verasamy/Mail & Guardian

    'Women were being killed on the street': the township struggling with domestic abuse

  • South Africa. Johannesburg. Daleside. 2016. Jorden and Naiden’s boyfriend Bosman chilling outside the Burn’s house.

    'They didn't allow me inside': the South African town of Daleside revisited

24 October 2019

  • Children at the public swimming pool in Orania.

    'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming

    Twenty-five years after apartheid, black people cannot live and work in this small South African city
  • A render from Shanghai-based Zendai Group showing their plans for a vast development in Modderfontein, north-east Johannesburg.

    The quiet failure of a Chinese developer’s ‘Manhattan in Africa’

    A refusal to include affordable housing led Johannesburg to reject glossy plans for high-end housing, offices, a rail station and entertainment district. It seems the city will get disconnected car-centric gated communities instead
  • A zama zama prepares to go underground in Durban Deep, an abandoned Victorian-era gold mine.

    'There's a lot of money down there': the deadly cities of gold beneath Johannesburg

    Millions of ounces of unmined gold are still believed to lie below the surface, fuelling a booming – but frequently deadly – illicit industry

23 October 2019

  • Durban’s beachfront is arguably South Africa’s most inclusive public space.

    The future of Durban: is this South Africa's most inclusive public space?

  • Farmers and workers protesting outside the Western Cape High Court protesting against plans to rezone part of the Philippi Horticultural Area.

    Is South Africa's most fertile farmland under threat from developers?

22 October 2019

  • Kevin Kimwelle

    'There is ingenuity in Africa': the architect who builds with trash

  • Diners at the Sakhumzi restaurant on Vilakazi Street, Soweto.

    The gentrification of Soweto hides the scars of its cruel apartheid history

    Niq Mhlongo

21 October 2019

  • A street scene in a South African city in November 1967

    Tell us: how have South African cities changed in the 25 years after apartheid?

  • A waste-picker sorts through a bag of rubbish from bins outside a gated residence in a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg.

    Why are South African cities still so segregated 25 years after apartheid?

    Justice Malala in Johannesburg
  • Manenberg is the one of the most notorious gang areas on the Cape Flats in Cape Town. South Africa. Picture: James Oatway

    'Only we can change things': life in the gang-ridden other side of Cape Town

  • William Zondi

    Waving not drowning: the street children finding refuge in Durban's surf scene

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