Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former gold mine worker smokes heroin on the street in the Hillbrow neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South Africa When Nelson ...

Colorful buildings on Cape Town's rocky landscape. Cape Town is South Africa's crown jewel. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, it was South Africa's first attempt at a modern metropolis, ...

Municipal elections will decide whether cities are engines of growth or hotspots of failed governance and unemployment.South Africa's upcoming municipal elections will determine far more than the ...

South Africa’s main municipalities, with the exception of Cape Town, are in a “death spiral,” spending way too much money on administrative staff and too little on maintaining and building ...

A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench.

The decline of South African cities, the rise of Nigerian cities and the breakthrough of Benin’s economic capital: the latest edition of our ranking on the continent’s metropolitan attractiveness ...

Illegal but entrenched, Ghana’s two-year advance rent system is squeezing millions of urban renters into debt, exposing the failure of housing policy and rent enforcement. As some East African cities ...

Hike or ride the cable car to the top of the world’s most famous flat-topped mountain at Table Mountain National Park. Be entertained by waddling wild penguins at the white-sand Boulders Beach against ...

A 75-year-old woman running for mayor of South Africa’s biggest city went snorkeling in a large, water-filled trench in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Larson/Travel + Leisure Colorful buildings on Cape Town's rocky landscape. Sit beneath the swaying palms and watch the ...