Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appeal to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
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Troubles in South Africa’s coalition-led local governments are affecting accountability, governance stability and service delivery.
With international trade facing its greatest threat in decades, this club of China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and India will have much to say about it.
Over a third of pupils in the Gauteng province still travel more than five kilometres to school.
As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it’s becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
South African parties are recognising that coalition politics is now part of the political landscape and is here to stay.
It’s critical to understand how mothers from all backgrounds navigate obstacles within the city as part of their daily lives.
By expanding our understanding of streets and enhancing their design, every street corner could become a space to socialise, to exercise, to play, or to trade.
Johannesburg’s central business district is developing into a major cross border shopping hub, servicing the broader sub-Saharan region and has a potential to grow even further.
South Africa needs to review its approach to rolling out Bus Rapid Transit systems as the current model is proving to be too expensive and unsustainable.
Economic inequality and distrust in government is causing outbreaks of violence on South Africa’s streets.
According to South Africa’s department of international relations, Grace Mugabe didn’t have immunity when she entered the country.
Are different ways of governing emerging from South Africa’s cities governed by opposition coalitions?
Two of South Africa’s finest musicians, Johnny Mekoa and Ray Phiri, died recently. The permeable terrain between genres their careers negotiated, is being replaced by rigid marketing categories.
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
Maboneng in Johannesburg represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”.
Accra and Johannesburg have some way to go before making it onto anyone’s top 20. Both cities have a desperate gap between rich and poor but inequality is not a uniquely African problem.
Bike lanes in South Africa were meant to encourage commuter cycling and ease congestion but in Johannesburg the initiative garnered more outrage than support.
South African Visual Artist Senzeni Marasela’s work creates a tension between the narrations of public wounding and her private one.
Both Berlin and Johannesburg are at the centre of their respective countries’ night cultures. Both cities have undergone fundamental social transitions since 1990.
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Professor School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher of urban & cultural studies, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Post-doctoral Fellow NRF Chair: Local Histories, Present Realities, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: Research Strategy, Gauteng City-Region Observatory